Shakespeare
$38.66
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2004
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590171684 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590171683 |
| Author: | Mark Van Doren, David Lehman |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2004 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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“Van Doren’s
“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
About The Author
Mark Van Doren
Mark Van Doren (1894-1972) was born in Hope, Illinois, and received his A.M. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught literature at Columbia for nearly forty years, where his students included Thomas Merton, John Berryman, and Allen Ginsberg. At Columbia and through his book The Liberal Education, he helped promote the influential “great books” movement.
Van Doren was the literary editor of The Nation and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His works include critical biographies of writers such as Dryden and Hawthorne, a study of epic poetry titled The Noble Voice, several plays, an autobiography, novels, and many volumes of poetry. His poetry collection Collected Poems, 1922-1938 won the Pulitzer Prize.
David Lehman’s new book of poems, his sixth, is When a Woman Loves a Man. He is the series editor of The Best American Poetry, the annual anthology he founded in 1988, and is currently preparing a new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His nonfiction books include The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets and Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man.
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