The art of reading poetry
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- ISBN: 0060769661
- Physical Description 82 pages
- Edition 1st Perennial ed.
- Publisher New York : HarperCollins, [2004]
- Copyright ©2004
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General Note: | "Perennial." Excerpted from: The best poems of the English language / selected and with commentary by Harold Bloom. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 13.95 |
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Summary
The Art of Reading Poetry
"The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves." -Harold Bloom In The Art of Reading Poetry, Harold Bloom gives us his critical reflections on more than a half century devoted to reading, teaching, and writing about great verse, the literary achievements he loves most, and conveys his passionate concern for how a poem should be interpreted and appreciated. By illuminating such subjects as poetic voice, metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself, Bloom presents an invaluable learning tool as a key to artistic expression.