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The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost

By Harold Bloom

Book information

Publisher
Harper
Year
2004
ISBN
0060540419, 9780060540418
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
252 MB (263820971 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
1008\1016
Time added
2022-01-18 18:35:34

Description

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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