True Genius Poem by Justin Reamer

William Shakespeare,
A true genius at that,
For he has inspired many
Of the world around him,
And has inspired the literary world
And created a greater role in the
World of the West and of Humanity.

Everyone knoweth Shakespeare,
For a man will know him,
Whether he is a Briton,
An American or a Dane,
A Spaniard or a Swiss,
A Swede or a Nordic,
A Saxon or a German,
A Celtic or a Gaelic,
A Scot or a Welshman,
A Dutchman or a Belgian,
A Bulgarian or a Russian,
An Italian or a Canadian,
A Haitian or a Filipino,
A Chinee or a Japanee,
A Lescar or a Vietnamese,
Or even an Aussie.
Everyone knows of his genius.

Shakespeare is recognised everywhere,
For his plays are performed worldwide,
Including Hamlet,
Romeo and Juliet,
Julius Caesar and Othello,
And so many more,
That they are known for their art,
Making Shakespeare known worldwide.

Ben Jonson once complimented Shakespeare,
Saying,
‘Look not on his picture,
But on his Booke, '
And saying that Shakespeare's plays
‘Were of some noble arte.'
Jonson praised Shakespeare,
Even though he was angry at
His rival once, saying,
‘Shaksperr wanted arte! '
Yet, the two were lifelong friends,
No matter what happened in time.

The actors today perform Shakespeare's roles well,
Including Hamlet and Ophelia,
Laertes and Polonius,
Claudius and Gertrude,
Romeo and Juliet,
Mercutio and Benvolio,
Tybalt and Montague,
Capulet and whatnot,
Julius Caesar and Augustus,
Brutus and Marcus,
Othello and Desdemona,
Roderigo and Iago,
Cassio and Emilia,
Lady Macbeth,
King Lear,
And so many others,
While playing each role,
Without forgetting a line,
With perfect exactness,
Without a single malapropism,
With each verse singing to the listener,
With the heartbeat of iambic pentameter in each line,
Connecting the audience to the characters,
With each character developing in his or her own unique ways.

Shakespeare influenced the literary world,
For he inspired themes in authors such as
Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf,
Henry James and Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) ,
Theodore Dreiser and Sir Walter Scott,
James Fennimore Cooper and Walt Whitman,
John Milton and Jonathan Swift,
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World,
Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes,
Angela Harper and Isaac Asimov,
And so many more it is countless.

Then why, dear Reader,
Do we deny Shakespeare of his Authorship,
If his Works are that of True Genius,
And instead put someone else in his place?
Why do we say that the Man from Stratford,
The Swan-of-Avon,
The Man from Stratford-upon-Avon,
Did not write the Works he enticed?
Why do we say this?

Many say that Edward de Vere,
The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford did so,
Or Sir Francis Bacon,
Or Sir Thomas More,
Or the infamous John Donne,
Or John Florio, the translator,
Or Michael Drayton,
Or Edmund Spenser,
Or John Keats,
Or William Stanley,
The Earl of Derby,
Or Queen Elizabeth I (which is absurd) ,
Or King James,
Or Ben Jonson himself.

Why did not Shakespeare write his own works?
Honestly, he must have,
For only a man of true Talent and True Genius
Could have written the works that are ascribed to him,
For this is why we call him the Bard,
And why we consider him the Author,
The Great Author who wrote the Works,
The Great Author of the Works,
The Greatest Author of All Time,
Or perhaps in the Western World.
Shakespeare deserves his literary pedestal.

He inspired many movies,
Including Renaissance Man,
10 Things I Hate About You,
O,
Othello,
P.S. I Love You,
And so much more.
He inspired the literary world,
The talents of men,
The sayings we say,
Our little aphorisms we hold true,
Many words in the English language,
Many words in other language's translations.

Shakespeare is not Shakspeare
Or ‘Shaxbear'
Or Shaksperr,
Rather, he is the great man
Who wrote the plays.
He is the Author,
The Sonneteer,
The Poet,
The Greatest of them all,
And for that,
He is praised in Bardolatry,
In English Positivism,
In atheism,
In literary criticism,
As the best writer of all time.

Shakespeare is the Author
Of True Genius,
As Jonathan Bate says,
Harold Bloom agrees,
Charles Dickens upholds,
Isaac Asimov endorses,
Scott McCrea approves,
Irvin Matus holds true,
John Donne reluctantly agrees,
John Milton holds for inspiration,
And even Leo Tolstoy reluctantly gives in.
No one is better than Shakespeare is
When it comes to True Genius.