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And this brings us up to a point which has been so far neglected or missed that it may seem, if baldly stated, not only paradoxical but shocking. A forgotten artist of the last century, stumbling in his simplicity upon what had eluded wiser heads, and what would be angrily or contemptu- ously til rust aside hy Shakespeare's idolaters, put it with startling clearness in four words: 'Shakespeare was like putty. * 'Shake- speare was like putty to everybody and everything: the willing slave, pulled... out, patted down, squeezed anyhow, clay to every SHAKESPEARE AFTER THREE HUNDRED YEARS 9 potter. But he knew by the phistic liand what the nature of the moulder was. ' That is true; and it is essential to true appreciation. At the touch of this thin shaft of light, the facts rearrange themselves, the puzzle straightens itself out. One begins to see how it might be that in his life he was generally classed as onl}' one among others, and that his death — a thing that has often moved wonder — passed wholly unnoticed, and did not call forth, in tliat copiously elegiac age, a single line of elegy.
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