57 results for '"harold-bloom"'

Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master." (Harold Bloom)As John Banville writes in his introduction to THE LOVE OBJECT, Edna O'Brien...

A compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and moreIn the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson's prose...

"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and...

A groundbreaking collection from one of our most acclaimed young poets about personal loss and consumer anxiety in the American suburbs.In the wake of the critical success of The Late Parade (“poetry...

A comprehensive collection of writings by “the most influential writer of the nineteenth century” (Harold Bloom)Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker...

"Sixty years after the original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel 'Fahrenheit 451' stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its...

A selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired “Terrific from first to last.”―Dwight Garner, New York...

Named one of the GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS of the last 100 years by The Atlantic The 50th anniversary edition of the classic, freewheeling novel by one of the most iconic satirists of our time—now with a...

"David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after...

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes...

Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central...

“[Peter Cole’s] poetry is perhaps most remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought and...

“The best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages.”—Seamus Heaney“[Vendler’s] succinct but astute readings of Emily Dickinson’s poetry are little kernels of insight into a wickedly...

For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth ?our foremost novelist since...

The definitive edition of a modern master continues with 2 mid-career masterpieces, published here with new prefaces from the authorThis second volume in the Library of America DeLillo edition...

For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth "our foremost novelist since...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER  • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • SELECTED BY THE MODERN LIBRARY AS ONE OF THE 100 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS • The landmark study exploring...