A lively exploration of Shakespeare’s poems and how they speak to readers
Reading Shakespeare’s Poetry presents a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic poems, providing insights into the individual poems, their themes and composition, and their relation to the cultural context of Shakespeare’s world. Dympna Callaghan considers what makes Shakespeare’s language poetic and shows how his poetry is comprised not only of lyrical intensity but also of the language of everyday life.
Presented chronologically, lucidly-written chapters examine Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, the Sonnets, and A Lover’s Complaint. Special attention is paid to the distinctive ways in which lineation, rhyme, verse forms, and meter serve to delineate or erase the boundaries of Shakespeare’s poetry. Throughout the book, the author explains how Shakespeare’s language is influenced by predecessors such as Ovid and Petrarch while highlighting how ideas about the social and cultural function of poetry permeate Shakespeare’s works.
Offers an eminently readable yet scholarly exploration of the literary importance of Shakespeare’s poems
Explains the technical features of Shakespeare’s poetic language
Addresses the significance of the material form in which Shakespeare’s poems appear
Includes a discussion of songs, poems, and sonnets embedded in Shakespeare’s dramatic verse
Reading Shakespeare’s Poetry is both a fresh and indispensable guide to the poems and a significant critical intervention. This is a must-have book for scholars, students, and general readers alike.
作者简介
Dympna Callaghan 是雪城大学英语系的大学教授和 William L. Safire 现代文学教授,曾任美国莎士比亚协会主席。她撰写、编辑和合编了 14 本书,是 Arden Shakespeare Language and Writing 系列的编辑、Palgrave Shakespeare Studies 系列的联合编辑,以及亚洲莎士比亚跨文化档案馆 (A/S/I/A) 的编辑,这是一个表演材料的协作在线档案馆。
Dympna Callaghan is University Professor and William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the Department of English at Syracuse University and past President of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has authored, edited, and co-edited fourteen books and is the editor of the Arden Shakespeare Language and Writing series, the co-editor of the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies series, and an editor of the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A/S/I/A), a collaborative online archive of performance materials.
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