Christopher Marlowe
(1564-1593)
"...Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs,
Had in him those brave translunary things
That your first poets had; his raptures were
All fire and air, which made his verses clear,
For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should posses a poet's brain,"
(Drayton qtd. in Salgado, 130).