The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Title:
The Age of Shakespeare
Author:
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Category:
Language & Dictionary
ISBN:
9781455388554
Publisher:
PublishDrive Inc (Seltzer Books)
File Size:
1.15 MB
(price excluding 0% GST)
Synopsis
The book begins with a chapter on Marlowe: The first great English poet was the father of English tragedy and the creator of English blank verse. Chaucer and Spenser were great writers and great men: they shared between them every gift which goes to the making of a poet except the one which alone can make a poet, in the proper sense of the word, great. Neither pathos nor humor nor fancy nor invention will suffice for that: no poet is great as a poet whom no one could ever pretend to recognize as sublime. Sublimity is the test of imagination as distinguished from invention or from fancy: and the first English poet whose powers can be called sublime was Christopher Marlowe.
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