Reddit mentions of Shakespeare's Wordcraft (Limelight)

I'm actually of the school of thought that most aesthetic opinions can be quantified by an expert in the field. A great example of this that I'd just love to see applied to the Quran is Shakespeare's Wordcraft.

I read it years ago and it's fabulous. It reads more like a dictionary of technical terms with examples of how Shakespeare used them. Thinks like suffixes, prefixes, front clipping, end clipping, amplification, repeated consonants, repeated vowels, reverberations, sense shifting, negation, etc etc. He even shows examples from famous speeches and novels.

I've never come across a purely technical example of the Quran's wordcraft like this, but there are similar works from a rhetorical perspective, like Mustansir Mir's famous Coherence In the Quran as well as Logic, Rhetoric, and Legal Reasoning In the Quran by Rosalind Gwynne. Both great books.

I have my problems with Islam, in both its tenets and rituals, but certainly one thing I've never been able to shake is the sense of some mammoth genius lurking in the Quran. Every time I read about something in it and understand it, I discover another layer like an onion.

I have no doubt in my mind that all these people waving it away as simple poetry, put no more effort into reading it than whilst reading Harry Potter on the shitter.