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• Winner of Winner of the Israel Prize for Literary Research 1999.

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The breadth of background knowledge and the quality of the critical argument are impressive. Years Work in English Studies A wonderful book. Harold Fisch writes with wisdom and reflection, from deep knowledge and long thought, and with a blessed freedom from the shortcomings of those still in the academic sausage-factory. The elegance of his structure, the depth of his analyses, the significance of his allusions to other critics past and present, are all driven by the inexorable logic and importance of his insights into these three great writers ... The whole section on Shakespeare abounds with delight, and riches for the understanding. Literature & Theology This is an extremely rich and rewarding book which, although primarily an exercise in literary criticism, contains many stimulating ideas about biblical hermeneutics. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament An individual and original study. The result is exhilarating ... something much more than a catalogue of reworkings ... the book has rare excitement... The conjunction of three such major poets allows for some rich comparisons, and it is admirable in its boldness. Such a brief summary does not do justice to a rich and absorbing book ... wonderful rollercoaster ride of this spendidly energetic study. The Expository Times Few scholar-critics, perhaps no other, could have written this treasure of a book, at once broadly sweeping in its wise though radical judgments of three major Western authors and their mileaux, and surgically incisive and startling in its readings of particualr works ... readers will enjoy throughout the pleasure of recognition and the excitement of discovery - always accompanied by an appropriate critical context. What a book! CHOICE

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