id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 14252 Swinburne, Algernon Charles The Age of Shakespeare .txt text/plain 68217 2631 61 English poet whose powers can be called sublime was Christopher Marlowe. hands of any poet but Shakespeare, that none of the characters plays passing under that name among the works of Shakespeare, but first instinct which inspired the poet to prolong the action of his play so level among our tragic poets than that occupied by Marston and Dekker purest qualities of tragic poetry Webster stands nearer to Shakespeare in which all previous poets had played upon the metre which Webster was in the play remind me rather of Dekker's best early work than of age, to a poet of real genius and original powers, it will generally be other such man in Shakespeare's was a dramatic poet above or beyond all in the dramatic verse of any later English poet; and there are passages tragic style compared with Webster, Tourneur, Shakespeare, 114; comic style compared with Dekker, Middleton, Heywood, 191; ./cache/14252.txt ./txt/14252.txt