64 results for '"Harold Bloom"'

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female...

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...

This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called...

A selection of modern criticism on the writings of Marie Henri Beyle.

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 controversial national best seller upon its initial publication, The Book of J is an audacious work of literary restoration revealing one of the great narratives of all time and unveiling its...

Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.No critic has better...

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...

At last, a major American poet collected for the first time in the sixth volume of the definitive Library of Edition of her worksSTARRED REVIEW IN PUBLISHERS WEEKLYUrsula K. Le Guin’s career began...

A fully-annotated, two-volume work which presents the major literary achievements of English writers from the medieval period to the twentieth century

A definitive edition that introduces a major American poet to a new generation of readersAccording to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century...

A definitive edition that introduces a major American poet to a new generation of readers According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century...

This edition is designed to meet the special needs of a major authors approach to literature. Included in these two volumes are thirty of the major authors of English literature from Beowulf to Auden.

Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.

“Astonishingly fecund and inventive. The New Arcadia revitalizes pastoral traditions, but more in the mode of lamentation than celebration. Like Frost’s New Hampshire and Vermont, Kinsella’s Western...

Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, it includes up-to-date work on variants, a chronology of...

"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian...

1984, softcover, 448 pages, illustrated with some photographs of Jewish text pages, measures about 9 1/8 inches X 6 inches. "Back To The Sources is the best and most comprehensive introduction...

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...

"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...