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Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
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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
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Lascelles Abercrombie

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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.
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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