The Best Poems In The English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Fros

The Best Poems In The English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Fros by Harold Bloom


ISBN
9780060540425
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Paperback
Pages
1,008
Dimensions
156 x 235 x 41mm

This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure's contribution. There are also headnotes by Harold Bloom to every poet in the volume as well as to the most important individual poems. Much more than any other anthology ever gathered, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of a sublime art with very nearly everything they need in a single volume. It also is regarded as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind.
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This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure's contribution. There are also headnotes by Harold Bloom to every poet in the volume as well as to the most important individual poems. Much more than any other anthology ever gathered, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of a sublime art with very nearly everything they need in a single volume. It also is regarded as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind.
ISBN:
9780060540425
Publication Date:
01 / 11 / 2007
Pages:
1008
Dimensions:
156 x 235 x 41mm
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The greatest poetry the language has to offer, with concise, insightful and brilliant commentary by the greatest living literary critic of the language. Bloom doesn't talk circles around the texts, or drag them apart like he's butchering cattle. He sets up a mood; he invokes a delicious sense of ready-reception. And he includes works based purely on aesthetic power, without one single apology. - Jeremy (QBD)
, 14/06/2019


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