Lascelles Abercrombie

Biography

Quotes

  • The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
  • The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
  • Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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