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The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread by HAROLD BLOOM
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold ...Show more
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns his attention to the writers of his own national lite ...Show more
The Shadow of a Great Rock - A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible by Harold Bloom
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Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
"The King James Bible" stands at 'the sublime summit of literature in English', sharing the honour only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significant portion of his career as a brilliant critic and tea ...Show more
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, ...Show more
Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems by Harold Bloom
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Category: Poetry
An anthology of the final works of great poets. It curates the last poems of one hundred influential poets. Each of these poems, sometimes the literal end and other times the imagined conclusion to a poetic career, offer a lens through which to contemplate the enduring nature of art and the inevitabilit ...Show more
Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems by Harold Bloom
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Category: Poetry
'By definition, all living poets are excluded from this book. Myself seventy-nine years of age, I grieve still for many of these poets who were my friends. But knowledge, not pathos, is my purpose in gathering this anthology. Lastness is a part of knowing' - Harold Bloom. Harold Bloom is undisputedly th ...Show more