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“Sublimity is the test of imagination as distinguished from invention or from fancy: and the first English poet whose powers can be called sublime was Christopher Marlowe.”

Treating sublimity as the defining test of poetic imagination · The Age of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe

About Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

5 April 1837–10 April 1909

Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on 5 April 1837 at 7 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, into a family whose rank, traditions, and geography would all enter his imagination. He was the eldest surviving child of Captain, later Admiral, Charles Henry Swinburne and Lady Jane Henrietta Ashburnham, daughter of the…

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