Harold Bloom
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Publication Date
[2000]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publication Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The author offers an analysis of some of the central work of the Western canon, and of the playwright who not only invented the English language, but who also arguably created human nature as we know it today. Before Shakespeare there was characterization; after Shakespeare, there were characters, men and women capable of change, with highly individual personalities. In this book, the author outlines why Shakespeare has remained a popular and universal...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Examines the King James translation of the Bible, comparing it with other translations and noting its superiority over previous editions, and highlights the influences of the King James Bible in literature from the Romantic era to today.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Harold Bloom ... returns with a definitive yet personal book on twelve American writers upon whose work he believes the American canon is built. While his references to American writers are wide-ranging, he focuses on twelve: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Hart Crane-- those writers whose works make...
13) Yeats
Author
Publisher
Oxford Univ. Pr
Publication Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Sets forth in detail the precise relations of all of Yeats's writings - poems, plays, visionary prose - to the Romantic tradition.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Publication Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
From the Bible to Ralph Ellison, America's most prominent and bestselling literary critic takes an enlightening look at the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time.
16) Toni Morrison
Publication Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Presents biographical information along with critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas that appear in the author's works.
20) Othello
Author
Publication Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
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