SHAKESPEARE PB

Bloom. Harold

Reference

Riverhead Books

Bloom’s stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language A notable feature of Harold Bloom’s poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an elegant guide to reading poetry--a master critic’s distillation of a lifetime of teaching and criticism. He tackles such subjects as poetic voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself. Blooms writes “the work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves.” This essay is an invaluable guide to poetry.
 This edition will also include a recommended reading list of poems.

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost

Religion & Spirituality

Harper

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost

“To read Bloom’s insights here is to bask in the emanation of genius. As entertaining and erudite as his choices of the works he most loves are, the book’s overriding strength is the guidance it gives, in context and comprehension.” –Baltimore Sun This comprehensive anthology offers renowned critic Harold Bloom’s choice of the best of six centuries of great British and American poetry, selected in accordance with his three absolute criteria: aesthetic splendor, intellectual power, and wisdom. In Bloom’s introductory essay “The Art of Reading Poetry,” he presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to reading, teaching, and writing about great verse, the literary achievement he loves most. Throughout this volume, Bloom includes extensive introductions to each poet and to many of the individual poems. More than any other anthology, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of sublime art with nearly everything they need in a single volume.

Harper-perennial

“The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves.” –Harold Bloom In The Art of Reading Poetry, Harold Bloom gives us his critical reflections on more than a half century devoted to reading, teaching, and writing about great verse, the literary achievements he loves most, and conveys his passionate concern for how a poem should be interpreted and appreciated. By illuminating such subjects as poetic voice, metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself, Bloom presents an invaluable learning tool as a key to artistic expression.

The Art of Reading Poetry

“A colossus among critics. . . . His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant.” —New York Times In this charming anthology, esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom collects the last poems of history's most important and celebrated poets. As with his immensely popular Best Poems of the English Language, Bloom has carefully curated and annotated the final works of one hundred poets in Till I End My Song, with selections from John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, John Milton, Herman Melville, Emily Brontë, and others. Written with the same wise and discerning commentary of earlier books—including his acclaimed Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and The Book of J—Till I End My Song is a moving and provocative meditation on the relationship between art, meaning, and ultimately, death, from the literary titan of our time.

Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems

A gathering of last poems by great poets from W.H. Auden to Walt Whitman with extensive commentary by esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom, hailed by Booklist as “a collection of surpassing splendor and resonance.”
In this charming anthology, Harold Bloom collects the last poems of history's most important and celebrated poets. As with his immensely popular Best Poems of the English Language, Bloom has carefully curated and annotated the final works of one hundred poets in Till I End My Song, with selections from John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, John Milton, Herman Melville, Emily Brontë, and others. Written with the same wise and discerning commentary of earlier books―including his acclaimed Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and The Book of J―Till I End My Song is a moving and provocative meditation on the relationship between art, meaning, and ultimately, death, from the literary titan of our time.

Such scholars as Robert Langbaum, Ann Wordsworth, and John Killham analyze Browning's poetry, drawing attention to styles, literary structure, and themes

Robert Browning, a collection of critical essays (A Spectrum book)

Literature & Fiction

PRENTICE/HALL

First edition. A controversial literary criticism of our time by one of today's greatest literary critics. In this work, Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon: Shakespeare; Milton; Moliere; Dante; Cervantes; Tolstoy; Ibsen; Whitman, to name a few examples. Repudiating feminism, multiculturism and political correctness, he concludes with a list of essential writers that comprise his vision of the Canon. ii , viii, iv , 578 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

The Western Canon

History & Criticism

Harcourt, Brace & Co.

A study of twenty-six canonical writers details the qualities that make them literary essentials, and includes Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Beckett, Tolstoy, Freud, Molie+a6re, and others. By the author of The Book of J. 100,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

History

World

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

At once praised and condemned by his contemporaries and by critics ever since for his highly complex poetic vision, William Butler Yeats remains one of the most important and controversial twentieth-century poets.  In what has become a classic work of literary criticism, award-winning critic Harold Bloom breaks new ground with his radical interpretation of Yeats' relationship to the English Romantic tradition. Yeats tells the continuous story of the lifelong influence of Shelley, Blake, and the Romantic tradition upon Yeats' work.  Through his analysis of the full spectrum of Yeats' poems and plays, Bloom offers a profound reinterpretation of poetic influence in general.

Yeats

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Oxford

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SHAKESPEARE PB

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost

The Art of Reading Poetry

Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems

Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems

Robert Browning, a collection of critical essays (A Spectrum book)

The Western Canon

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Yeats