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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.

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.

It Is More Difficult To Keep The Attention Of Hearers Than Of Readers.

For The Stage Displays The First Vigorous Expression, As The Natural Thing And Without Conspicuous Restraint, Of Private Individuality.

No Poet Will Ever Take The Written Word As A Substitute For The Spoken Word; He Knows That It Is On The Spoken Word, And The Spoken Word Only, That His Art Is Founded.