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.
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Lascelles Abercrombie Author
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: England
- Born: Jan 9, 1881
- Died: Oct 27, 1938
Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate, linking him with the "Georgian poets") (9 January 1881 - 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at Malvern College, and at the University of Manchester.