Included Text
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough.
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough.
Note: The above lines from Christopher Marlowe's c. 1590 play
Doctor Faustus are inscribed on the original frame.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR was intensely interested in the eighteenth-century poet Thomas Chatterton, who was known for composing faux-historic poems, tales, and songs, many of which were published in the Middlesex Journal. In 1880, DGR wrote a sonnet in his honor.
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