The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets | 
pickI found Vendler, a Harvard professor & critic, to be a comforting & sensible companion as I made my way through the sonnets. Her close readings are what would be deemed old-school these days, but they are what poetry deserves: the study of its language, the puzzle of its verbal mechanisms. Sometimes the discussion becomes super technical, but she doesn't lose me because she still stays within the poem. This kind of deep reading feels meditative.
batsy #ShakespeareReadAlong 2y
Graywacke I wish I had had something like this. 2y
batsy @Graywacke It was super useful to have her voice in my ear. (And once again grateful for friends with pdfs!) 2y
