I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

