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Article: Shakespeare and the French Poet.(Book review)
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- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
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- January 1, 2006
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Shakespeare and the French Poet, by Yves Bonnefoy, edited by John Naughton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 283. Paper $22.50.
As the carefully chosen title suggests, this book is more than a study of Shakespeare. It records the lifetime, and still ongoing, engagement with Shakespeare by a major foreign poet (today's most scandalous omission from the list of Nobel laureates), who, in translating him, has meditated successively on the lessons for contemporary poetry and contemporary living, to be learned from his plays and poems, and who has reflected abundantly, not simply on the problems of translating Shakespeare, but on what precedes ...