Shakespeare’s birthday today. Happy Birthday William Shakespeare.
Here’s Allen on Shakespeare.
On Shakespeare’s The Tempest – here – here, here, here, here and here
On Shakespeare’s Sonnets, most notably here and here
but also (for example) here, here, here and here
There’s also the Songs – like “Winter” (from “Love’s Labor’s Lost) – “When Icicles hang by the wall,/ And Dicke the Shepheard blows his nail”. (“that combines song with absolute precise detail, which is, I think, a model for any kind of poetry, whether free verse or formed, formalistic..”)
More Ginsberg on Shakespeare- here
and here‘s Allen on a wonderful piece of Shakespearean parody in (Jack) Kerouac
and Shakespearean buffoonery in Gregory Corso
Shakespeare, as legend has it, was both born and also died on this day.
Happy birth and death day, Shakespeare!