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

Informationen zum Autor Harold Bloom was 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 was a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of numerous 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Harold Bloom, Bloom Harold
• Assisted by: Bloom Harold (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2004
• EAN: 9780060540418
• ISBN: 978-0-06-054041-8
• No. of pages: 972
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 48 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Africa, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Reference works, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Renaissance style, Literary reference works, Religion and beliefs, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM: Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM: Books & Reading, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: CRITICISM, POETRY: ANTHOLOGIES, POETRY: African, POETRY: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY: Ancient Languages (see also Latin), FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY: African Languages (see also Swahili), Poetry / Anthologies, Poetry / Criticism