Poets Baron Wormser and Jeanne Marie Beaumont are offering a weekend long course entitled " Plath and Shakespeare " at The Writing House, 13 Loomis Street, Montpelier, VT. The course will be held 16-17 April 2016, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost: $325 (lunch included) Limited to six participants: first come, first served. As of this blog post, only two spots remain open. Sylvia Plath was deeply attuned to the poetry of Shakespeare. His work offered her an emotional scope, a trove of verse techniques, a bottomless vocabulary, a stunning range of tones (both comic and tragic), the felt presence of classical themes, and an insistence on the primacy of drama. Accordingly, we will be looking at some Plath poems through the Shakespearean lens to see how she seized upon his plays as an aid to creating poems that were brief yet powerful dramas. Any poet with ambition yearns to reach the phenomenal eloquence Shakespeare represents. Plath not only had that ambition, she worked deliberate
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