Arthur Kirsch is the Alice Griffin Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and the author of books on Shakespeare as well as Auden.
"Auden's lectures on Shakespeare are a marvelous blend of steady,
patient intelligence and stunning insight—spirited, free-thinking,
resourceful, unintimidated, liberated from the air of treacly
piety, and very, very intelligent."—Stephen Greenblatt
"A remarkable achievement."—Frank Kermode, London Review of
Books
"The finest [book] by any English poet on the subject since (and I
am not forgetting Coleridge) Dr. Johnson."—Lachlan MacKinnon, Daily
Telegraph
"In every way, Kirsch has produced a model of useful scholarship. .
. . To know Auden's work well is to acquire a liberal education.
These lectures on Shakespeare are a good place to start."—Michael
Dirda, Washington Post Book World
"For anyone who has ever resolved in vain to sit down and read
right through Shakespeare, this at last is the volume to help
fulfil that resolution. . . . [M]asterly."—Christopher Murray,
Irish Times
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