It is natural that, after the epic poet has arrived, the crude epic material in which he worked should scarcely be heard of.
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets
Quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie about Poets
9 quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets
Lascelles Abercrombie British Poet
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 poets
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets
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 poets
The kind of folk-spirit behind the poet is, indeed, different in the Iliad and Beowulf and the Song of Roland from what it is in Milton and Tasso and Virgil.
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets
