All of the issue as below—above—
Shakespeare’s creation rises: one remove
Though dread—this finite from that infinite.
Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. Cambridge edition, U.S.A. 1895.
Browning wrote this sonnet as a contribution to the Shakespearean Show-Book issued at the “Shakespearean Show” held in the Albert Hall, London, 29-31 May 1884, in aid of the Hospital for Women in Fulham Road. The sonnet is dated 12 March 1884.
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY, 1886
(b. 1819)
“The Mighty Makers.”
Whose are those forms august that, in the press