Quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie about Poetry
10 quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry
Lascelles Abercrombie British Poet
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.
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry
No great poetry, of whatever kind, is conceivable unless the subject has become integrated with the poet's mind and mood.
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry
The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society.
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry
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.
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry
