“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.” MindIndividualCommunityCreationPoetProductionsArtisticPoetry IsArtistic Creation Author:Lascelles Abercrombie
“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.” KnowsArtWrittenPoetArt IsSubstitutesWritten WordSpoken Word Author:Lascelles Abercrombie
“The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.” IfsMaySpiritSuccessfulPoetRefuseCompositionEpic 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
“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.” MenKindDifferentPoetConsciousDeterminationDifferent KindsEpicEpic Poems Author:Lascelles Abercrombie
