ABSTRACT
The motives of William Shakespeare’s poetry having been described, there is no occasion for the further question as to the way in which he has made of them concrete poetry, in other words, as to the form he gave to that affective content. Find “Shakespearean totality” exalted, by means of which “a passion is like a common denominator of the capital sum, and the capital sum becomes in its turn the general denominator of the play.” This “totality” is clearly synonymous with the lyrical character, which constitutes the poetry of every poem, including those that are called epic and dramatic, or narrative, and those in the form of dialogue. Shakespeare could never have desired to possess the ideal of beauty, which visited the soul of the hirsute and unfortunate Platen, the social or humanitarian ideals of the Schillers and Tourgueneffs.
