Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
Jul 2009 · Harvard University Press
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Harold 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.
Harold 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...
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Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was the author of dozens of books of literary criticism, including The Anxiety of Influence, which has been translated into more than forty languages, and the New York Times bestseller How to Read and Why. A two-time finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, he was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was the author of dozens of books of literary criticism, including The Anxiety of Influence, which has been translated into more than forty languages, and the New York Times bestseller How to Read and Why. A two-time finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient ...
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