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The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost
Contributor(s): Bloom, Harold (Author)
ISBN: 0060540427     ISBN-13: 9780060540425
Publisher: Harper Perennial
OUR PRICE:   $22.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2007
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Annotation: The great critic presents his personal selection, with commentary, of the finest poems in the English language.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors)
- Poetry | American - General
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.008
Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.14" W x 9.2" (2.05 lbs) 1008 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

"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.


Contributor Bio(s): Bloom, Harold: -

Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than thirty books include The Best Poems of the English Language, The Art of Reading Poetry, and The Book of J. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.