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A Note Before the First. An index of Subjects. The subjects: 1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited. 2: The Tale of Genji. 3: The poetry of Daniel Huws. 4: The novels of Jonis Agee. 5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries. 6: The literature of the Blasket Islands. 7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War. 8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. 9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wor
272: MORE ON SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare is a possession, in almost any sense you want to give the word. For Brits, he is a national possession: a secondhand bookshop in Stratford I once visited had a large corner display of Shakespeare and a small sign that said proudly: “Local author.” For theatre people especially, booksellers, professors of literature, he is a professional, a vocational possession. Stephen Greenblatt has written of “the special delight that Shakespeare
