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How To Tell Students What To Look For Without Telling Them What To See Is The Dilemma Of Teaching.

If Epic Poetry Is A Definite Species, The Sagas Do Not Fall Within It.

The First Epics Were Intended For Recitation; The Literary Epic Is Meant To Be Read.

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.

Poetry Is The Work Of Poets, Not Of Peoples Or Communities; Artistic Creation Can Never Be Anything But The Production Of An Individual Mind.