false 1702944 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg <DIV>Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet<DIV>“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.”</DIV>]]> 1702944 2 1700011 4 9 2007 A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse total:3|4:2|3:1| 3 11 7 1 996 3.98 2326 315 15557593 324395 1702944 0374122784 9780374122782 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1702944.A_Choice_of_Shakespeare_s_Verse 3.67 3 <DIV>Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet<DIV>“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.”</DIV>]]> 2007 4 0 false Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 16 08:06:40 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 06 19:33:35 -0700 2008 curledup.com]]> 79277676 1477841 1702944 0374122784 9780374122782 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1702944.A_Choice_of_Shakespeare_s_Verse 3.67 3 <DIV>Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet<DIV>“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.”</DIV>]]> 2007 0 0 false Sun Nov 29 04:44:14 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 04:44:26 -0800 2009 77013661 2919849 1702944 0374122784 9780374122782 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1702944.A_Choice_of_Shakespeare_s_Verse 3.67 3 <DIV>Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet<DIV>“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.”</DIV>]]> 2007 0 0 false Sat Nov 07 10:26:56 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 10:27:03 -0800 2009 76238881 2894402 2283084 0571233791 9780571233793 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2283084.Choice_Of_Shakespeares_Verse 0.0 0 <div>Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet

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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.”</div></div>]]> 2007 0 0 false Fri Oct 30 14:26:42 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:26:42 -0700 2009 62891416 2437802 1702944 0374122784 9780374122782 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1702944.A_Choice_of_Shakespeare_s_Verse 3.67 3 <DIV>Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet<DIV>“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.”</DIV>]]> 2007 3 0 false Fri Jul 10 05:37:27 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 05:37:27 -0700 2009 15445286 907781 1702944 0374122784 9780374122782 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1702944.A_Choice_of_Shakespeare_s_Verse 3.67 3 <DIV>Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet<DIV>“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.”</DIV>]]> 2007 0 0 false Thu Feb 14 15:58:38 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 15:58:38 -0800 2008 5878451 361124 1702944 0374122784 9780374122782 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1702944.A_Choice_of_Shakespeare_s_Verse 3.67 3 <DIV>Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet<DIV>“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.”</DIV>]]> 2007 4 0 false Fri Sep 07 20:59:26 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 20:59:26 -0700 2007 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1702944