The author of twenty books of his own poetry, the most recent being Elk in Winter and Composing Voices, and five books of literary criticism, Robert Pack finds everywhere in Shakespeare's incomparable plays a vision empathetic to human suffering and moral aspiration, tempered by the Bard's acute awareness of human frailty. Currently, Robert Pack teaches in the Honors College of the University of Montana.
"Willing to Choose struck me as something utterly fresh and
compelling, a book about Shakespeare that ought to inspire a wide
range of readers. Robert Pack, himself a poet, understands
Shakespeare's art in ways that seem both comprehensible and
satisfying. Pack shows again and again what art has added to nature
itself, making it somehow bearable. The willful choice to examine
to face reality boldly, and to accept the balm of its beauty
without resorting to fantasy, was the wise and noble choice that
Shakespeare himself made. Readers will be grateful to Pack for
making this plain, for adding so much to nature himself in this
strong, sensible, and artful book."--Jay Parini, Robert Frost, A
Life
"Robert Pack's excellent new book on Shakespeare is a work not only
of scrupulous scholarship but, more importantly, of poetic
imagination as well as a genuine contribution to Shakespeare
criticism. His chapters on The Tempest, Macbeth, Hamlet, and A
Midsummer Night's Dream are particularly powerful, but the whole
book is filled with insight and intuition, written in a style that
makes it a delight to read, for academic and lay person alike. The
fact that Pack is a poet himself gives him a particular entree into
the mind of Shakespeare, and his philosophical and psychological
reading enhances his literary approach immensely."--Robert
Brustein, The Theater of Revolt
"Robert Pack's study of Shakespeare is a poignant and mature
meditation on the world's greatest writer."--Harold Bloom,
Shakespeare: The Invention
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
