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It was Drayton who said of Marlowe, that he "had in him those brave translunary things that the first poets had;" and there are brave things in Drayton, but they are only occasional passages, oases among dreary wastes of sand.
Thus one seaport goes down and another comes up, industries forsake one country to bless another, the military and naval strengths of nations fluctuate this way and that; and to those whom these changes affect they are undoubtedly important matters the great capitalist, the soldier, and the politician; but to the quiet man at home with his wife, his children, his books, and his flowers, to the artist busied with brave translunary matters, to the saint with his eyes filled with 'the white radiance of eternity, to the shepherd on the hillside, the milkmaid in love, or the angler at his sport what are these pompous commotions, these busy, bustling mimicries of reality?
All for Love. Dryden, with his wonted perspicacity, follows Ben Jonson in calling Donne "the greatest wit, though not the best poet, of our nation." "Had in him those brave translunary things That our first poets had." To open vistas for the imagination through the blind wall of the senses as he could sometimes do, is the supreme function of poetry.
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