Neil Corcoran is King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool.

'This book is an outstanding achievement, full of brilliant readings of both important careers and individual poems, and written in a lucid, acute and witty style. It is both accessible to the undergraduate and informative for the expert. It is deeply sympathetic with its subjects, and yet always judicious and cold-eyed in its appraisals. It is the work of a critic writing at the height of his powers.' Justin Quinn, Charles University, Prague

• Introduction; Part I. Yeats's Shakespeare: 1. Setting a sail for shipwreck: Yeats's Shakespeare criticism; 2. Myself must I remake: Shakespeare in Yeats's poetry; Part II. Eliot's Shakespeare: 3. That man's scope: Eliot's Shakespeare criticism; 4. This man's gift: Shakespeare in Eliot's poetry; Part III. Auden's Shakespeare: 5. A plenum of experience: Auden's Shakespeare criticism; 6. The reality of the mirror: Shakespeare in Auden's poetry; Part IV. Ted Hughes's Shakespeare: 7. A language of the common bond; 8. The Shakespearean moment; 9. Survivor of cease: Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's poems.

Neil Corcoran is King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool.

'This book is an outstanding achievement, full of brilliant readings of both important careers and individual poems, and written in a lucid, acute and witty style. It is both accessible to the undergraduate and informative for the expert. It is deeply sympathetic with its subjects, and yet always judicious and cold-eyed in its appraisals. It is the work of a critic writing at the height of his powers.' Justin Quinn, Charles University, Prague

• Introduction; Part I. Yeats's Shakespeare: 1. Setting a sail for shipwreck: Yeats's Shakespeare criticism; 2. Myself must I remake: Shakespeare in Yeats's poetry; Part II. Eliot's Shakespeare: 3. That man's scope: Eliot's Shakespeare criticism; 4. This man's gift: Shakespeare in Eliot's poetry; Part III. Auden's Shakespeare: 5. A plenum of experience: Auden's Shakespeare criticism; 6. The reality of the mirror: Shakespeare in Auden's poetry; Part IV. Ted Hughes's Shakespeare: 7. A language of the common bond; 8. The Shakespearean moment; 9. Survivor of cease: Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's poems.

Neil Corcoran is King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool.

'This book is an outstanding achievement, full of brilliant readings of both important careers and individual poems, and written in a lucid, acute and witty style. It is both accessible to the undergraduate and informative for the expert. It is deeply sympathetic with its subjects, and yet always judicious and cold-eyed in its appraisals. It is the work of a critic writing at the height of his powers.' Justin Quinn, Charles University, Prague

• Introduction; Part I. Yeats's Shakespeare: 1. Setting a sail for shipwreck: Yeats's Shakespeare criticism; 2. Myself must I remake: Shakespeare in Yeats's poetry; Part II. Eliot's Shakespeare: 3. That man's scope: Eliot's Shakespeare criticism; 4. This man's gift: Shakespeare in Eliot's poetry; Part III. Auden's Shakespeare: 5. A plenum of experience: Auden's Shakespeare criticism; 6. The reality of the mirror: Shakespeare in Auden's poetry; Part IV. Ted Hughes's Shakespeare: 7. A language of the common bond; 8. The Shakespearean moment; 9. Survivor of cease: Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's poems.