...the first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear, For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. 'Exegi monumentum acre perennius.'1 This involves a double claim to immortality, not only for the poetry,...

...To dub a poet mad was to pay him a compliment. As Michael Drayton praised Kit Marlowe: For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. These stereotypes echoed certain realities of Tudor and Stuart England. Like Shakespeare's motley fools,...

...the first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear: For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. But this happy genius appears to have had as unhappy a will, which obscured his judgment. It made him...

...MADNESS Introduction ... his raptures were, All air, and fire, which made his verses clear, For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. — MICHAEL DHAYTON1 An Angel Descending: Dante's Divine Comedy. William Blake, c. 1826 (The Pierpont...

...Sonnets (1 633). Repr. in Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. lohn Hayward (1929). 19 For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. MICHAEL DRAYTON, (1563-1631) British poet. "To Henry Reynolds," Of Poets and Poesy, 1. 109(1627). Referring...

...your first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear: For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. William Shakespeare 1564-1616 T .L he biographical facts concerning William Shakespeare are few. We...

...the first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear; For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. Epistles of Poets and Poesy ' Jamburlaine is portrayed as a powerful and dominating figure in this...