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Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Anonymous Plays: Arden of Feversham

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Mother whose womb brought forth our man of men,     Mother of Shakespeare, whom all time acclaims     Queen therefore, sovereign queen of English dames,     Throned higher than sat thy sonless empress then,     Was it thy sons young passion-guided pen     Which drew, reflected from encircling flames,     A figure marked by the earlier of thy names     Wife, and from all her wedded kinswomen     Marked by the sign of murderess? Pale and great,     Great in her grief and sin, but in her death     And anguish of her penitential breath     Greater than all her sin or sin-born fate,     She stands, the holocaust of dark desire,     Clothed round with song for ever as with fire.

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About Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was an English poet known for metrical innovation and bold themes. His "Atalanta in Calydon" and "Poems and Ballads" challenged Victorian conventions with their musical intensity and controversial subject matter.

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