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Lascelles Abercrombie

British Poet

Born: Jan 9, 1881

Died: Oct 27, 1938

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Related authors: Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Bibesco George Herbert Helen Dunmore John Donne Lord Byron Samuel Butler Thomas Babington Macaulay

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. Lascelles Abercrombie

First Recitation Read Were Intended Literary Epic Epics Meant Meant To Be

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. Lascelles Abercrombie

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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. Lascelles Abercrombie

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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. Lascelles Abercrombie

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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. Lascelles Abercrombie

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