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  • The Sagas take an interest in misconduct, when there is nothing better to be had, and the heroic age is frequently represented by them rather according to the rules of modern unheroic story-telling than of Bossu _on the Epic Poem_.

    Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker

  • [Footnote 1: Johnson on the Epic Poem (_Life of Milton_).] [Footnote 2: _Il. _ xii.

    Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker

  • Water, Fire and Man; and the Epic Poem on what still appears to me the one only fit subject remaining for an epic poem ” Jerusalem besieged and destroyed by Titus.

    Selected English Letters Various 1913

  • Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Man; and the Epic Poem on what appears to me the only fit subject remaining for an Epic Poem -- Jerusalem besieged and destroyed by Titus. "

    English Men of Letters: Coleridge 1871

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