"I'm not familiar with Aulden, you don't mean Auden do you?
I'm not a huge fan of Shakespeare really, I think school probably put me off.
Shakespeare is certainly overrated "
Every Shakespeare fan I speak to tells me that I would become a convert if I tried a little harder to understand him. I'm sure they're right |
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"I'm not familiar with Aulden, you don't mean Auden do you?
I'm not a huge fan of Shakespeare really, I think school probably put me off.
Shakespeare is certainly overrated
Every Shakespeare fan I speak to tells me that I would become a convert if I tried a little harder to understand him. I'm sure they're right "
If the barely literate population in 16th/17th century England could understand him, there's no excuse in the 21st century.
Not that that makes him that interesting, though! |
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"Obviously it’s Shakespeare but which is anyone’s fav Aulden "
Do you mean Auden? If so his most famous poem is of course 'stop all the clocks', also known as the funeral blues |
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"Obviously it’s Shakespeare but which is anyone’s fav Aulden "
I think they’re completely different so I don’t think you can really compare?
Personally I think Shakespeare wrote some great plays/sonnets - and some not so great.
When it comes to Poetry I’m fond of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. |
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"I'm not familiar with Aulden, you don't mean Auden do you?
I'm not a huge fan of Shakespeare really, I think school probably put me off. "
The Auldens are the best. |
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"I'm not familiar with Aulden, you don't mean Auden do you?
I'm not a huge fan of Shakespeare really, I think school probably put me off.
Shakespeare is certainly overrated
Every Shakespeare fan I speak to tells me that I would become a convert if I tried a little harder to understand him. I'm sure they're right
If the barely literate population in 16th/17th century England could understand him, there's no excuse in the 21st century.
Not that that makes him that interesting, though!"
I suspect they understood him because he spoke the English of the time. I can't read Chaucer without a reference book by my side eitner |
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"I'm not familiar with Aulden, you don't mean Auden do you?
I'm not a huge fan of Shakespeare really, I think school probably put me off.
Shakespeare is certainly overrated
Every Shakespeare fan I speak to tells me that I would become a convert if I tried a little harder to understand him. I'm sure they're right "
I think Shakespeare is far easier to understand if you watch the plays rather than reading them. Hated studying him at school, but love seeing performances. |
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