🌲 Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 71

A perfect epic is only possible when the critical spirit begins to be in the ascendant, for with the critical spirit comes that distrust and apathy towards the spontaneous literature of early times, which permit some great poet so to shape and alter the old materials as to construct a harmonious and internally consistent tale, observing throughout a sense of proportion and a due relation of the parts.

Who acts: perfect epic, critical spirit, early times · What happens: be, begin, come, permit, shape, alter · To what, where: ascendant, distrust, great poet, old materials, harmonious tale, proportion

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