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The Age of Shakespeare (Serapis Classics) - cover

The Age of Shakespeare (Serapis Classics)

Algernon Swinburne

Publisher: Serapis Classics

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Summary

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...
Available since: 10/22/2017.
Print length: 112 pages.

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