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Shakespeare

By Mark Van Doren
Foreword by David Lehman

By Mark Van Doren
Foreword by David Lehman

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Aug 31, 2005 | ISBN 9781590171684

Shakespeare by Mark Van Doren
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Aug 31, 2005 | ISBN 9781590171684

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About Shakespeare

This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare’s plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without a hint of pedantry, Van Doren elucidates both the astonishing boldness and myriad subtleties of Shakespeare’s protean art. His Shakespeare is a book to be treasured by both new and longtime students of the Bard.

Product Details

Category: Literary Criticism | Poetry

Paperback | $21.95
Published by NYRB Classics
Aug 31, 2005 | 336 Pages | 5-1/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781590171684

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Praise

“Van Doren’s Shakespeare got me through Harry Levin’s [Harvard] course back in 1951. Whenever I read a Shax play I reread what Van Doren said about it.” — John Updike

“Professor Van Doren enlightens us, not because he has any special knowledge or private advantages, but because his love of Shakespeare has been greater than our own.” — W.H. Auden

“If during my stay at Columbia I had met only Mark Van Doren and his work, it would have been worth the trouble.” — Delmore Schwartz

“It was the force of his example that made me a poet.” — John Berryman

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