William Basse
Basse's most famous poem is his "enormously popular sixteen-line elegy on Shakespeare":
Shakespeare's Kingdom
"Shakespeare's Kingdom" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs (also known as the ""Pageant of Empire"") written to be performed in the "Pageant of Empire" at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.