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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.

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Heroic poetry arises from a time period that is inherently heroic by its nature and character, rather than by its actions or achievements. In other words, the qualities that define an age as heroic exist independently of what the people in that age actually accomplish.

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