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Bloom, Harold

 
9780060540418: The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
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ISBN 10: 0060540419 ISBN 13: 9780060540418
Editorial: Harper, 2004

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard.

De la contraportada

The great critic presents his personal selection, with commentary, of the finest poems in the English language.

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 by its editor as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind.

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Editorial
Harper
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0060540419
ISBN 13 
9780060540418
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
1008
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ISBN 10:  0060540427 ISBN 13:  9780060540425
Editorial: Harper Perennial, 2007
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