Take Arms Against a Sea of Trouble

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Take Arms Against a Sea of Trouble
169,00 lei

Categorii: Diverse, Diverse

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2020

Editura: Yale University Press

Tip copertă: Hardcover

Nr Pag: 672

ISBN: 9780300247282

Dimensiuni: l: 15.5cm | H: 23.5cm | 4.3cm | 1094g

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Take Arms Against a Sea of Trouble
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The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry.

This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death-completed weeks before Harold Bloom died-shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called "a universe of death."

Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of life's troubles, taking readers on a grand tour of the poetic voices that have haunted him through a lifetime of reading. "High literature," he writes, "is a saving lie against time, loss of individuality, premature death."

In passages of breathtaking intimacy, we see him awake late at night, reciting lines from Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Blake, Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Jay Wright, and many others. He feels himself "edged by nothingness," uncomprehending, but still sustained by reading. Generous and clear-eyed, this is among Harold Bloom's most ambitious and most moving books.

"Perhaps Bloom's most personal work, this is a fitting last testament to one of America's leading twentieth-century literary minds." - Publishers Weekly

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