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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.

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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

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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.

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How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

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It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

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

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