The Nature of the Epic Poetry

by Lascelles Abercrombie

The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society. That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. Most nations have passed through the same sort of chemistry. Before their hot racial elements have been thoroughly compounded, and thence have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512398438
• ISBN13: 9781512398434
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"