Shylock reasons with Mr. Chesterton, and other poems

** "Shylock reasons with Mr. Chesterton, and other poems" by Humbert Wolfe is a collection that uses conversations between people from history and books to look at big ideas like who we are, what we believe, and what it means to be human. The collection starts with a tense talk between Shylock, from Shakespeare's play, and G.K. Chesterton, a famous writer, about prejudice and the pain that both Jewish and Christian people have felt. The different poems then bring in other figures from the past, such as people like Pheidias, Paul the Apostle and Cleopatra, to show different sides of love, loss, and what it means to be alive, and Wolfe's writing is full of strong images, mixing old stories with modern feelings, to get readers thinking about humanity’s struggles throughout time. **