Author : Algernon Charles Swinburne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332887807
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)
Book Synopsis The Age of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) by : Algernon Charles Swinburne
Download or read book The Age of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Age of Shakespeare 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 humour nor fancy nor invention will suffice for that: no poet is great as a poet whom no one could ever pretend to recognise as sublime. Sublimity is the test of imagination as distin guished from invention or from fancy: and the first English poet whose powers can be called sublime was Christopher Marlowe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.