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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to...

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an...

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently;...

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has...

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide...

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant...

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation...

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly...

Traditional matter must be glorified since it would be easier to listen to...

That is to say epic poetry has been invented many times and independently...

If epic poetry is a definite species the sagas do not fall within it.

By the general process of epic poetry I mean the way this form of art has...

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from a man would decide...

Poetry is the work of poets not of peoples or communities artistic creation...

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material...

But the gravest difficulty and perhaps the most important in poetry meant...

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly...

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