A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse Contributor(s): Hughes, Ted (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374122784 ISBN-13: 9780374122782 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: September 2007 Annotation: Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet ""According to most anthologies, [Shakespeare] wrote only sonnets and songs for his plays. The reason for this [is the] reluctance of anthologists to break into the sacred precincts of his drama and start looting portable chunks . . . Yet when he great speeches of his plays are taken out of context they are no more difficult to understand and appropriate than those by other great poets." "This clear, compact, inviting selection of Shakespeare's verse opens the door to new readers of our greatest writer and deepens lifelong readers' understanding of his work. Ted Hughes spent his life considering Shakespeare's works and drawing on them for his own poetry; his book-length account of Shakespeare's development, "Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being", was one of the most distinctive works of literary criticism of recent years. For this selection, Hughes deliberately took strong, relatively self-contained passages of Shakespeare's verse out of the plays and arranged them in a pattern, like beads on a string, including the best-known songs and sonnets. The result is at once a revealing sequence of Shakespeare's verse and an anthology of his greatest bits--"read in less than a minute, learned in less than five, " Hughes remarks in the introduction, and always "capable of striking up a life of their own in thegeneral experience of the reader." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.3 |
LCCN: 2007012933 |
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.56" W x 8.2" L (0.62 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: School Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 188 Library Journal 08/20/2007 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet According to most anthologies, Shakespeare] wrote only sonnets and songs for his plays. The reason for this is the] reluctance of anthologists to break into the sacred precincts of his drama and start looting portable chunks . . . Yet when he great speeches of his plays are taken out of context they are no more difficult to understand and appropriate than those by other great poets. This clear, compact, inviting selection of Shakespeare's verse opens the door to new readers of our greatest writer and deepens lifelong readers' understanding of his work. Ted Hughes spent his life considering Shakespeare's works and drawing on them for his own poetry; his book-length account of Shakespeare's development, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, was one of the most distinctive works of literary criticism of recent years. For this selection, Hughes deliberately took strong, relatively self-contained passages of Shakespeare's verse out of the plays and arranged them in a pattern, like beads on a string, including the best-known songs and sonnets. The result is at once a revealing sequence of Shakespeare's verse and an anthology of his greatest bits--read in less than a minute, learned in less than five, Hughes remarks in the introduction, and always capable of striking up a life of their own in the general experience of the reader. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hughes, Ted: - TED HUGHES (1930-1998) published numerous volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction in 1985 and was appointed Poet Laureate of England in 1984. |
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