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. (Lascelles Abercrombie)

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.

Lascelles Abercrombie

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