Take arms against a sea of troubles : the power of the reader's mind over a universe of death / Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Harold, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 663 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]

Summary:

The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. William Shakespeare and John Milton: In Every Deep, a Lower Deep

2. Milton: The Shakespearean Epic

3. Milton and William Blake: The Human Form Divine

4. William Wordsworth and John Keats: Something Evermore About to Be

5. Wordsworth: The Myth of Memory

6. Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron: Serpent and Eagle

7. Keats: They Seek No Wonder but the Human Face

8. Robert Browning: What in the Midst Lay but the Tower Itself?

9. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lest One Good Custom Should Corrupt the World

10. Walt Whitman: I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You

11. Robert Frost: Drink and Be Whole Again beyond Confusion

12. Wallace Stevens: The Hum of Thoughts Evaded in the Mind

13. William Butler Yeats and D. H. Lawrence: Start with the Shadow

14. Hart Crane: The Unknown God

15. Sigismund Schlomo Freud: Speculation and Wsdom

16. Dante/Center and Shakespeare/Circumference.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780300247282

0300247281

OCLC:

1146552873