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In the bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human , Harold Bloom showed us how Shakespeare shaped human consciousness, and addressed the question of authorship in Hamlet . In Hamlet: Poem Unlimited , America's most celebrated critic turns his
A new book by Americas leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Blooms manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold Bloom o
The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. An impressive workdeeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.Michael Dirda, The Was
"Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happe
J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 and 900 BCE, on which Genesis, Exodus and Numbers is based. In The Book of J, Bloom and Rosenberg draw the J text out of the surround
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 fict
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found? is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom ha
"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, w
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 explains Shakespeares genius in a radical an
"The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can."So Harold Bloom, the most famous
Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence, an insightful study of Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist, has sold over 17,000 copies in paperback since 1984 and remains a central work of criticism for students of literatur
A selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired Bringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary w
This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals a