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

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 1008

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harper

Release: March 16, 2004

ISBN: 0060540419

ISBN 13: 9780060540418

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

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 1008

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harper

Release: March 16, 2004

ISBN: 0060540419

ISBN 13: 9780060540418

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