"Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life."
― Lascelles Abercrombie
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- "By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made."
- "Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."
- "If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it."
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