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by: Harold Bloom See Larger Image List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $14.06 You Save: $5.89 (30%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 821.008 EAN: 9780060540425 ISBN: 0060540427 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1008 Publication Date: August 01, 2007 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: August 07, 2007 Sales Rank: 61113 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages How to Read and Why Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human The Art of Reading Poetry see more Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 'The Art of Reading Poetry,' which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure's contribution. There are also headnotes by Harold Bloom to every poet in the volume as well as to the most important individual poems. Much more than any other anthology ever gathered, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of a sublime art with very nearly everything they need in a single volume. It also is regarded as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - The Best Poems . . . I'm not a real big poetry fan, but I did enjoy reading many poems in this volume. I'm not sure how some of these works were included while other better known poems by the contributors were excluded, but the end result is still a good survey of English language poetry. The book is chronological beginning with Geoffrey Chaucer and ending with the 20th Century poets. Each poet has an introductory section that details the highlights of his/her life and some of their political or social ... Read More Rating: - OK Collection but not the Best!! Professor Bloom, Good Collection but what happened to Auden, Sylvia Plath, or Gwedolyn MacEwen of Canada?? Rating: - A delight to read anytime Harold Bloom has done an outstanding job of compiling a group of the greatest poets through centuries of work. His written passages that precede the author's works are great insight, even if you do not fully agree with them. I also enjoy the fact that he put in Chaucer and others' original works, not whatever he felt would read easiest. Bloom allows you to witness the creativity and brilliance of the author's work, without too much of his own personal influence. Rating: - A wonderful collection of poetry For one reason or another, I have been recently reading (and reviewing) poetry collections--from Romantics on. And a review by one of my Amazon friends led me to purchase and enjoy this collection. The author, Harold Bloom, is an eminent scholar, the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow and author of numerous volumes. In his Introduction, he observes that (Page xxvii) "My chronological limits are set by Geoffrey Chaucer, born around 1343, and Hart Crane, ... Read More Rating: - `Poetry is in the first place poetry, a high and ancient art.' Three things caused me to buy this book. The first was the inclusion of two Emily Bronte poems by Professor Bloom: `Stanzas' and `Last Lines'. The second was the inclusion of T S Eliot's `The Wasteland' and the third was that 108 poets are represented in this book. Professor Bloom selected as his chronological limits Geoffrey Chaucer, born around 1343 and Hart Crane born in 1899. Within these parameters is a wealth of British and American poetry to cover a wide range of moods and tastes. ... Read More see more

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