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

by Harold Bloom

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"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 ... Read more

"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. 

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File size9.2x6.14x1.8inches
Print pages972
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date August 1, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780060540425
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Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – Oct 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is often cited as the most influential English-language cr...

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