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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom…
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This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable…
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…
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Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence, is a study of Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For the second edition, Bloom offers an introduction which explains…
Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call…
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A book by American literary critic on the uses of deep reading. How to Read and Why is Bloom’s manifesto for the preponderance of written culture.
– J. Hillis Miller
Featuring extended analyses of the author’s most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, this title…
Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndale’s Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts, the author highlights how the translators and editors improved upon - or…
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The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry
An elegant guide to reading poetry–a master critic’s distillation of a lifetime of teaching and criticism. Bloom tackles such subjects as poetic voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and…
Macbeth es una de las tragedias mas leidas y escenificadas de Shakespeare. El protagonista, un guerrero distinguido, se transforma en asesino despiadado consumido por la duda y la ambicion. William…
Cleopatra, una de las mujeres por si misma mas fascinantes de la historia, se convirtio tambien, gracias a Shakespeare, en uno de los personajes literarios mas interesantes. La fusion de…
Bloom escribe un retrato intimo y profundamente compasivo de uno de los personajes mas conmovedores de la literatura universal. Es desde la senectud compartida -Bloom ya habia alcanzado, como Lear…
Fake News. A pesar de estar tan en boga en nuestros dias, Shakespeare ya era consciente de la utilidad de este recurso a la hora de destruir destinos y por…
August Wilson’s group of 10 plays, often referred to as the Pittsburgh Cycle or the Century Cycle, established his reputation as one of the nation’s most important, prolific, and honored…
Provides a research and study guide for five plays by Bertolt Brecht, including plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical reviews.
Maya Angelou’s quintessential autobiography recounts her struggle as a young black woman to overcome obstacles and realize her dream as a published poet. It was nominated for the National Book…
A comprehensive research and study guide for several plays by George Bernard Shaw, including plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views.
Considered one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway composed many classic works earning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his efforts. This new volume features…
Discusses the plots, characters, and themes of the dramatist’s most important works.
User’s guide - Editor’s notes and intro. - Comprehensive bio. - Detailed plot summaries of each play - Extracts from critical essays that examine important aspects of each work -…
A volume in the second series of Modern Critical Views , which in conjunction with the first seeks to offer critical portraits and commentary on the world’s most read, studied…
Provides critical analysis from several viewpoints of such poems as All in green went my love riding, Memorabilia, and somewhere i have never traveled..
User’s guide - Editor’s note and introduction by Harold Bloom - A comprehensive biography of the poet - Detailed thematic analysis of each poem - Extracts from major critical essays…
One of the Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s triumphs, Love in the Time of Cholera is a masterwork of magical realism. This text contains an introductory essay, critical…
Presents important and scholarly criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains notes on the…
Harold Bloom (Yale University)
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the…
Agata Bielik-Robson
Harold Bloom is one of our greatest living literary critics. In this full-length study on Harold Bloom, Agata Bielik-Robson explores the many facets of Bloom’s critical writings and career.
Alan Rawes,Jonathon Shears
Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom takes the work of the greatest living literary critic and discovers what it is like to read ‘with’, ‘against’ and ‘beyond’ his…
Dr. Alistair Heys
Here at last is a comprehensive introduction to the career of America’s leading intellectual. The Anatomy of Bloom surveys Harold Bloom’s life as a literary critic, exploring all of his…
Prof. Harold Bloom
Features critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism; notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author’s life, and an index; and, an introductory essay by Harold…
Features essays that touch on subjects such as sight and vision, speech and dialect, and the ways the novel subverts traditional power structures, and more.
Features a complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world, bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study, a useful chronology of…
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…
In an acclaimed work, one of America’s foremost literary and cultural critics examines some of society’s New Age obsessions. An awesomely learned and, at times, touchingly personal discussion of the…
In a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time, a leading literary critic and author of The Book of J explores the mysteries of genius as expressed in…
Siddhartha Singh
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, language: English, abstract: Harold Bloom offers a theory of poetry by the way of a description…
A controversial national bestseller upon its initial publication, The Book of J is an audacious work of literary restoration revealing one of the great narratives of all time and unveiling…
Peter De Bolla
Since the 1960s, the literary critic Harold Bloom has been producing some of the most powerful criticism in the United States. This large body of work has, since the publication…
Lord Byron has been called a vital embodiment of post-Renaissance poetry. His work is that of a proud individualist asserting the primacy of instinct through agonized self-conflict. Born in 1788…
Paul Gleed
This invaluable writing guide offers students strategies and perspectives on writing about the fated lives of King Lear, Julius Caesar. Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo, Juliet, and the other vibrantly flawed…
Kim Crowley
This series inspires students to write compelling essays on great authors and their works by encouraging their academic inquisitiveness and sharpening their critical-thinking skills. The books include a guide to…
