Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's, Therefore on … - Walter Savage Landor

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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,
Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,
Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,
No man hath walked along our roads with step
So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue
So varied in discourse.

Walter Savage Landor

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About Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor (January 30 1775 – September 17 1864) was an English prose-writer on themes drawn from literary history, a verse-dramatist, and a poet.

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Lord Byron Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Alexander Pope William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's, Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath… - Walter Savage Landor

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