The Age of Shakespeare (Serapis Classics) (eBook)

Algernon Swinburne (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
112 Seiten
Serapis Classics (Verlag)
978-3-96313-013-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2017
• Verlagsort: Vachendorf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: amazon classics • amazonclassics • classics • Drama • History • Literature • modern history • Shakespeare
• ISBN-10: 3-96313-013-X / 396313013X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-96313-013-7 / 9783963130137