CliffHoldsPoetryCourt

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Consulting Historian of Poetry
Location Berkeley, CA, United States
Introduction Clifford Joseph Schwartz, MA, conducts Experiential Shakespeare Reading Workshops. He also holds Structured Conversation With Poetry® evenings in the Berkeley CA area. You can study Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Spenser, and The Poets of Shakespeare's Day with CJS for community college credit, and he is available for private tutoring. C.J.S. prevents catastrophic confusion and dismay through "Rescue For English Majors: First Responder for All Poetry Prior to 1950®." For information contact: cliffholdspoetrycourt@gmail.com As an Independent Consulting Historian of Poetry, Clifford Joseph Schwartz insists that: "If the English Language is your mother tongue, then The History of Poetry in English is your Birthright — Don't Grow Up Without It!" "But if English is a Second Language to you, then The History of Poetry in English is your dessert/reward for all your work in acquiring this infamously exasperating tongue!" "
Interests Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, W.H. Auden, Sherlock Holmes, John Milton, English Romantic Poets, Modern Art, Calligraphy, Modern Dance, Original Six NHL, classical music, Gershwin, Women's ice hockey, The Human Awareness Institute
Favorite Movies Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Wizard of Oz, Key Largo, Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare In Love, Rosencrants & Guildenstern Are Dead, Perry Mason(TV)
Favorite Music Classical, Gershwin, New Orleans Jazz, Bob Dylan, Renaissance, Andres Segovia guitar
Favorite Books Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Sherlock Holmes, Grapes of Wrath, The Maltese Falcon, The Sea and the Mirror (W.H. Auden)