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The Art Of Reading Poetry

Paperback • 2005 • English

The Art Of Reading Poetry

By Harold Bloom

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About the book

A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an elegant guide to reading poetry--a master critic's distillation of a lifetime of teaching and criticism. He tackles such subjects as poetic voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and the nature o...Show more

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9780060769666

Publisher

HarperPerennial

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

The Art Of Reading Poetry

Format

Paperback

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