A Living Shakespeare: The Sonnets
Ebook
At the heart of A Living Shakespeare is the belief that contemporary poetry can bring us into an encounter with Shakespeare that has new and genuine vitality. Shakespeare himself predicted that language would change and his poems would lose their modernity, but asked that we continue to read them not for their "style" but for their "love." Luke William's poems, coupled here with Shakespeare's, breathe life into the sonnets and awaken fresh desire to become truly intimate with these works of art.
“William’s collection of his Shakespearean sonnets is
wonderfully readable as love poetry—but also deeply absorbing as an
exhibition of what it can mean to read Shakespeare. Pairing his own
sonnets with Shakespeare’s text, he impels us to trace the
articulation and patterning of his private feelings, conveying his
pleasure in finding his poetic self in the poetry of another. The
desire of sharing one’s feelings, normally difficult, comes to seem
natural and lovely.”
—Victoria Myers, Peppperdine University, emerita
“Luke William invites us to journey with Shakespeare in a parallel
sonnet sequence that skillfully weaves together imaginative
translations with original riffs on time, beauty, love, death, and
poetry itself. A Living Shakespeare is an energizing
demonstration of the power of words in the past to continue to
inspire words in the present. A pleasure to read.”
—Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University, emeritus
“A Living Shakespeare is literary intertextuality at its
best—a poetic reminder that not only does the past affect the
present, but the present, the past. Readers find that before
turning each page, they have read Shakespeare’s sonnet and
William’s corresponding sonnet back and forth many times, enjoying
the delightful interplay of language and sense between the two
poems and discovering both the temporal and the atemporal in the
process.”
—Mary Ann B. Miller, Caldwell University
- Title: A Living Shakespeare: The Sonnets
- Authors: Luke William, Donald G. Marshall
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666791938, 9781666791921, 9781666735147, 1666791938, 1666735140, 166679192X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666791938
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-11T03:27:27Z
Luke William received a PhD in English from the University of California, Irvine, specializing in British Romanticism and Critical Theory.