Take arms against a sea of troubles : the power of the reader's mind over a universe of death / Harold Bloom.
| Author/creator | Bloom, Harold author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020] |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | vi, 663 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prelude: reading to stay alive, poetic thinking -- Introduction: the rhetoric of poetic thinking -- William Shakespeare and John Milton: in every deep, a lower deep -- Milton: the Shakespearean epic -- Milton and William Blake: the human form divine -- William Wordsworth and John Keats: something evermore about to be -- Wordsworth: the myth of memory -- Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron: serpent and eagle -- Keats: they seek no wonder but the human face -- Robert Browning: what in the midst lay but the tower itself? -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: lest one good custom should corrupt the world -- Walt Whitman: I stop somewhere waiting for you -- Robert Frost: drink and be whole again beyond confusion -- Wallace Stevens: the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind -- William Butler Yeats and D. H. Lawrence: start with the shadow -- Hart Crane: the unknown God -- Sigismund Schlomo Freud: speculation and wisdom -- Dante/Center and Shakespeare/Circumference |
| Abstract | The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9780300247282 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0300247281 hardcover |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1055 .B56 2020 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |