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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare’s genius in a re-reading of the plays.
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An anthology of poems which attempts to give readers the possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry.
Walt Whitman
Contains twelve free-flowing, untitled poems which embrace almost every realm of experience.
Ursula K. Le Guin
At last, a major American poet collected for the first time in the sixth volume of the definitive Library of Edition of her works
In his last book, Harold Bloom…
Through focused and sustained study of this writer and his best-selling book, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues pertinent to both general readers and university classes…
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An analysis of the kabbalah, a mystical Judaic system. This book provides a study of the Kabbablah itself, of its commentators - the ‘revisionary ratios’ they employed - and of…
Professor Harold Bloom
From Bloom’s now-canonical book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human come individual meditations on two of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, each with the play’s original text.
History’s greatest playwrights are covered in one set- Expert analyses by Harold Bloom and other notable critics- Ideal for class use- A must for all serious students of literature- Edited…
The Canterbury Tales was the first great poem in the English language. Ideal for research, this title in the Bloom’s Guides series includes excerpts from interpretive essays that provide expert…
This new edition offers a selection of contemporary critical commentary on this classic American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also in this volume is an introductory essay by Yale literature…
This series offers a comprehensive look at some of the world’s most important literary masterpieces. The Grapes of Wrath is John Steinbeck’s compelling novel of social justice, chronicling the suffering…
This reinterpretation of the full sweep of English and American romantic poetry offers close readings of poems of Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Yeats, and Stevens. It also…
Shakespeare’s most conflicted character leaves a path of murder and chaos in his quest to usurp the throne of Scotland. Ages 16+.
Written by Sophocles around 425 BCE, Oedipus Rex is a classic Greek tragedy that depicts the struggle between man and fate. Oedipus’ story forms the foundation for the symbolic conflict…
Comprehensive research and study guide.
Franz Kafka has been said to have offered everything from a psychological parable of the Oedipal struggle to a caricature of psychological readings. This collection of critical essays features Kafka’s…
Based on the The Canterbury Tales , this work features an introduction by master scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology detailing Chaucer’s life, a bibliography, and an index.
Includes essays that explore the nuances of the author’s fictive world. This study guide features an introductory essay by scholar Harold Bloom, notes on the contributors, and reference features such…
Part of the Bloom’s Modern Critical Views series, this work includes a chronology, bibliography, and notes on the contributors.
One of the 20th century’s preeminent novelists, Kurt Vonnegut satirically explored the wrongs of humanity, most notably in Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle . Part of the Bloom’s Modern Critical Views…
From the modernist explorations of the first half of the 20th century to the diverse styles and practitioners of the 21st century, contemporary American poetry has forged a vital and…
Initially known for her short stories and articles, Kate Chopin was considered to be little more than a regional writer. Published in 1899, her second novel, The Awakening, received little…
John Steinbeck was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. He wrote such classics as The Grapes of Wrath , Of Mice and Men , The Red…
Uncovers the mystery of both Prince Hamlet and the play, how both prince and drama are able to break through the conventions of theatrical mimesis and the representation of character…
Joseph Heller’s World War II satire, Catch-22 , poses the moral dilemma of how to remain sane in an insane world. It also introduced the Catch-22 catchphrase into everyday vernacular…
Containing essays about the play, this literary guide features a bibliography and notes on the essay contributors.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
Hailed as the indispensable critic by The New York…
Perhaps the most written-about long poem of the 20th century, TS Eliot’s The Waste Land is a cornerstone of the modernist movement and deals with what was then viewed as…
Featuring a collection of cohesive critical essays, this book includes an introduction by Harold Bloom, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index.
The author of Jesus and Yahweh and The Western Canon captures America’s spiritual life in the words of 225 of its greatest poets.
Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath follows failed farmer Tom Joad and his family as they head from Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl to the promised land of the…
Harold Bloom realiza un acercamiento literario, critico y ante todo humanista a los personajes que considera mas relevantes de Shakespeare. El primero: Falstaff.
Dos anos antes de su muerte, Harold…
The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in…
Offers a biographical profile of the poet and provides analyses and critical views of his work, including The Drunk in the Furnace, For the Anniversary of My Death, and The…
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Featuring extended analyses of the author’s most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, this title…
Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndale’s Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts, the author highlights how the translators and editors improved upon - or…
The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom…
From the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare’s most complex and compelling anti-heroes-the final volume in a series of five short…
In this inspiring book, a preeminent literary critic takes readers from the Bible to 20th-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives.
