Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.Lascelles Abercrombie
And when I fell from there,
Then knew I also what this life would do
In being twin,-in being man and woman!
Lascelles Abercrombie
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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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