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Now, Thomas, know thy sin.
(The Sale Of Saint Thomas)
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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
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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Is there no man, is there none?
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
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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.
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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.
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