Harold Bloom
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America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original...
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original...
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Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work...
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The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.
NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a “heroically brave, formidably learned” defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional
10) Hamlet
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In Shakespeare's powerful drama of destiny and revenge, "Hamlet", the troubled prince of Denmark, must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father. Contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on "Hamlet", as well as a biography on Shakespeare.
11) Macbeth
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Shakespeare's stark tale of a tormented nobleman driven into a murderous plot by his ambition to assume the throne of Scotland. Contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on "Macbeth", as well as a biography on Shakespeare.
14) Poets and poems
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English Professor Harold Bloom introduces students to the most prominent poets and poems in the English language. Bloom offers his interpretations and opinions on the most well-known work from each author included.
16) Walt Whitman
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This book features essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that offer students historical insights into Whitman and his works.