Shakespeare was not “a minor English poet”, complains reader

A READER WRITES: “You refer to a ‘minor’ English poet who advises us that ‘the course of true love never did run smooth’. I remind you that the poet in question was William Shakespeare. He was the greatest English poet of all time. There was nothing ‘minor’ about him”.

BB SAYS: Thank you for pointing out this correction. Shakespeare was, indeed, not a minor poet. Consider this marvelous quote from Macbeth:

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."