Quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie about Creation

3 quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie about creation

Lascelles Abercrombie British Poet

An epic is not even a re-creation of old things; it is...

An epic is not even a re-creation of old things; it is altogether a new creation, a new creation in terms of old things.

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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or...

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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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.

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