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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
- Important
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
- Poetry
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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.
- Great
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
- First
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
- He
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
- Never
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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- Nov 07, 2020