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The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal
manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
* Shakespeare seems to have missed due recognition for
having in King Lear made the first, and so far as I know, the
only piece of verbal three-dimensional perspective in any
literature. It is not again until Milton’s Paradise Lost (II, ll. 1­5)
that a fixed visual point of view is deliberately provided for the
reader:
High on a Throne of Royal State, which far
Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind ,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showrs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold,
Satan exalted sat, . . .