I have before me The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare’s Poetry, a seven-hundred-plus-page volume that contains thirty-eight essays by a number of American and British scholars, critics, and readers.⁠[1] Its aim, if it could be said to have a single one overall, is to redirect attention to what its editor, Jonathan Post, sees as Shakespeare’s verbal […]

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