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In this way, we are inclined to see the poet more as a slave to a fossilized pattern than as a skillful manipulator of sounds and ideas that continually suggest themselves to his mind in the rather challenging circumstances of his act

— Isidore Okpewho Isidore Okpewho’s The Epic in Africa (1979)

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