...ínbcín er fagter Next Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in bim those brave (ranslunnry things ' ••, That the first poets had: his raptures...air and fire, which made his verses clear: For that line madness still hé did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. • Hie lost was lawless...

...ÎJraçton, ber SBerf. beé «Potyoíbion, boe S5erbten|i unferee 2)1ф4еге, tnbem et fagte: Next Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things : . .That the flrst. poets had: his raptures were All air and lire, which made his verses clear: For that line madness...

...speake." 1 Drayton spoke of him as a prototypical poet, inspired by a prototypical furor poeticus: Neat Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...things That the first Poets had, his raptures were All ayre, and fire, which made his verses cleere, For that fine madness still he did retaine. Which rightly...

...Esquire, of Poets and Poesie (1627), in 'Works', ed. JWHebel et al. (Oxford, 1931^1), 228. Next Marlow bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those brave...things, That the first Poets had, his raptures were, All Ayre, and fire, which made his verses cleere, For that fine madnes still he did retaine, Which rightly...

...metrical firmness, lucidly articulate. Drayton's praise of Marlowe provides us with apt terms: Neat Mailow bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those brave...things That the first poets had, his raptures were, All ayre, and fire, which made his verses cleere, For that fine madness still he did retaine, Which rightly...

...those poets whose work recalls the spiritual and compulsive origins of literature: Marlowe, he writes, "Had in him those brave translunary things, / That the first Poets had." Drayton's canon differs most notably from the earlier catalogues in not projecting similitude or harmony....

...man and his work, fellow poet and contemporary Michael Drayton eulogized Christopher Marlowe: Neat Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That your first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear: For that fine...

...sublime author whom the poet Michael Drayton imagined 'bath[ing| ... in the Thespian springs' and who 'Had in him those brave translunary things, / That the first Poets had', was evidently the same 'barking dog' whom the Puritan polemicist Thomas Beard damningly found 'the...

...969 of the morning." Drayton's verse-tribute is in its own expression worthy of its subject: "Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...poets had: his raptures were All air and fire—" If in that age of brave aspiration and accomplishment, Shakespeare owed aught to Marlowe, let it be...