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Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Name: Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
ISBN: 9780674780286

Harold Bloom

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Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best.

Categories:

Poetry - American Poetry

Content Type:

Books

Year:

1991

Publisher:

Harvard University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

214