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“It is perhaps hard not to see something of the author himself in his reading of Shakespeare aged thirty.”
“It was the spring of 1951 and Berryman, thirty-six years old, was not yet a poet of national renown.”
“Few do enjoy this jolt, it is true; and John Berryman, closer to forty than thirty, knew this too.”
“The first public lecture was planned for March 1951.”
“The fear of contagion posed an existential threat to London’s burgeoning theater industry.”
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“We can also overstate the inevitability that such potential would be realized; nothing seems inevitable until it has been actualized.”
“The couple next returned to Princeton, and other honors soon followed for the poet.”
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“Shakespeare had a long career…and for the first many of these years he little resembled the major canonical figure of English writing he becomes.”
“Shakespeare was someone with talent but hardly a leading light; a recently published pamphlet had mocked this “Shake-scene” as an “up-start crow.” If you asked about Ben Jonson or Thomas Middleton or John Webster, they would have looked at you with a puzzled expression and said they have never heard of them.”
“Robert Greene was the most notorious of the dramatists they mention, a pugnacious figure in the literary scene.”
“But all of this, as Berryman notes, was ‘beyond’ this very specific moment in Shakespeare’s life, his thirtieth birthday.”
“______________________________ From Shakespeare at Thirty by Rory Loughnane.”
“Much depended upon these lectures, and his wife, Eileen, was all too aware of the pressure her husband felt.”
“A lecture about another poet-dramatist’s burgeoning potential had, it seems, helped Berryman to realize his own.”
“He had contributed parts of a set of hit history plays about the Wars of the Roses.”
“The biggest problem with the plague was that no one knew when it would be fully curbed.”
“In 1969 he would win both The National Book Award for Poetry and The Bollingen Prize for his volume His Toy, His Dream, His Rest .”
“But the published lecture “Shakespeare at Thirty” remains an electrifying account of the best of mid-twentieth-century criticism about Shakespeare’s early working life, inflected tellingly by Berryman’s personal intuitions about the experiences of a fellow poet.”
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