The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
1008 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2004
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This edition
ISBN: 9780060540418
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harper
Publication date: 16 March 2004
Description
Bloom’s stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English LanguageA 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.