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 | | What The Epic of is demanded of the epic of art (as some kind of compensation for that natural freedom of evolution which it can never achieve, that sweet abandon, which belongs to nature and to the epic of growth alike) is unity of impression, harmonious and symmetrical development of a conscious heart-thought or motive. |
 | | Although no epic, Eastern or Western, can exist without a struggle between good and eviland a struggle upon apparently equal termsit must not be supposed that the warring of conflicting forces which is the motive of Eastern epic has much real relation to the warring of conflicting forces which is the motive of Western epic. |
 | | And, as regards the machinery of epic, there is, we suspect, a deeper significance than is commonly apprehended in the fact that the Satan or Shaitan of the Eastern world becomes in Vondel and Milton.a sublime Titan who attracts to himself the admiration which in Eastern poetry belongs entirely to the authority of heaven. |
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