“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.” MatterStoriesWould BeRememberHoursCreationNeededEasierTiredFamiliarTraditionalUnexpectedListenersUnexpected Things Author:Lascelles Abercrombie
“The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.” MatterBehindsStylePoetTraditionCompellingEpic Author:Lascelles Abercrombie
