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A meditation on the major plays of Shakespeare and the thorny art of literary translation, Shakespeare and the French Poet contains twelve essays from France's most esteemed critic and preeminent living poet, Yves Bonnefoy. Offering observations on Shakespeare's response to the spiritual crisis of his era as well as compelling insights on the practical and theoretical challenges of verse in translation, Bonnefoy delivers thoughtful, evocative essays penned in his characteristically powerful prose. Translated specifically for an American readership, Shakespeare and the French Poet also features a new interview with Bonnefoy. For Shakespeare scholars, Bonnefoy enthusiasts, and students of literary translation, Shakespeare and the French Poet is a celebration of the global language of poetry and the art of ""making someone else's voice live again in one's own.""

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Poet, critic, and chair of comparative poetics at the College de France, Yves Bonnefoy was awarded the Prix Goncourt for Poetry in 1987. John Naughton is professor of Romance languages and literatures at Colgate University. He is the principal translator of Bonnefoy's work into English.

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