Harold Bloom
Bloomâ€™s stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language,A notable feature of Harold Bloomâ€™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 criticâ€™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 â€œthe work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves.â€ This essay is an invaluable guide to poetry.,This edition will also include a recommended reading list of poems.
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The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost