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Type: Poet Quotes Category: British Poet Quotes Date of Birth: January 9, 1881 Date of Death: October 27, 1938 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Lascelles Abercrombie Related Authors: Lord Byron Thomas Babington Samuel Butler John Donne George Herbert Edith Sitwell Christina Rossetti Thom Gunn |
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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.
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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. Lascelles Abercrombie |
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