A Private Commission: New Verses By Shakespeare
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What if Shakespeare left behind verses unknown to the world for four centuries? Peter Levi — poet, classicist, and Oxford Professor of Poetry — presents A Private Commission: New Verses by Shakespeare, a provocative and scholarly work that introduces a body of verse attributed to the Bard himself, arguing with forensic literary precision for its authenticity and significance. Levi draws on his vast knowledge of Elizabethan poetry and language to situate these newly surfaced verses within the broader canon of Shakespeare's work, tracing their linguistic fingerprints and metrical cadences with the eye of a true specialist. Levi's prose is at once rigorous and elegantly readable, making the book as compelling for the general lover of literature as it is for the serious scholar. This is a work that challenges the boundaries of what we think we know about the most studied writer in the English language — and leaves the tantalising question hanging in the air: could the greatest literary discovery of the modern era have been hiding in plain sight all along?
Author: Peter Levi
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, Macmillan London
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
What if Shakespeare left behind verses unknown to the world for four centuries? Peter Levi — poet, classicist, and Oxford Professor of Poetry — presents A Private Commission: New Verses by Shakespeare, a provocative and scholarly work that introduces a body of verse attributed to the Bard himself, arguing with forensic literary precision for its authenticity and significance. Levi draws on his vast knowledge of Elizabethan poetry and language to situate these newly surfaced verses within the broader canon of Shakespeare's work, tracing their linguistic fingerprints and metrical cadences with the eye of a true specialist. Levi's prose is at once rigorous and elegantly readable, making the book as compelling for the general lover of literature as it is for the serious scholar. This is a work that challenges the boundaries of what we think we know about the most studied writer in the English language — and leaves the tantalising question hanging in the air: could the greatest literary discovery of the modern era have been hiding in plain sight all along?