The world: historical and actual . if it suited his purpose ;but under the touch of his genius the commonplacewas transformed and transfigured. Hallani wrote ofhim: The name of Shakspeare is the greatest in ourliterature—it is thegreatest hi all litera-ture. No man evercame near him in thecreative powers of themind ; no man ever hadsuch strength at once,and such variety of im-agination. Coleridgehas most felicitously ap-plied to him a Greekepithet, given before toI know not whom, cer-tainly none so deserv-ing of it—foiptfvavs, the thousandsoukd Shaks-peare. Harlowe, Green andBen Jonson, Beaumo
The world: historical and actual . if it suited his purpose ;but under the touch of his genius the commonplacewas transformed and transfigured. Hallani wrote ofhim: The name of Shakspeare is the greatest in ourliterature—it is thegreatest hi all litera-ture. No man evercame near him in thecreative powers of themind ; no man ever hadsuch strength at once,and such variety of im-agination. Coleridgehas most felicitously ap-plied to him a Greekepithet, given before toI know not whom, cer-tainly none so deserv-ing of it—foiptfvavs, the thousandsoukd Shaks-peare. Harlowe, Green andBen Jonson, Beaumontand Fletcher, Ford andShirley, are ranked asShakspearean drama-tists, but it was only be-cause they were contem-poraries. In point of merit they are not at all comparable. Theyadded somewhat tothe honors of thatgolden age of En-glish literature, butnot much. The Eliz-abethan Age wasrendered illustriousby two nameSjShaks-peare and Bacon,representatives ofvery different ele-origins and of widely dif-thought in the development.
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