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.
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.
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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.
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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