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AFTER READING TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT (1) by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: YON PAGE BEING CLOSED, MY SHAKESPEARE'S LET ME
Last Line: AND VAST CURVES OF THE GRADUAL VIOLIN!
Subject(s): DRAMATISTS; MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564-1593); PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS; TAMERLANE (1336-1404); TIMURE (1336-144); TAMBERLAINE (1336-144);

YON page being closed, my Shakespeare's let me ope.
How welcome -- after gong and cymbal's din --
The continuity, the long slow slope
And vast curves of the gradual violin!



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