Auteur: Harold Bloom

“Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor …

A definitive edition that introduces a major American poet to a new generation of readers According to Harold Bloom, ‘The best of Alvin Feinman’s poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century …

“A colossus among critics. . . . His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant.” —New York Times In this charming anthology, esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom collects th …

Hailed as ‘the indispensable critic’ by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and expla …

Hailed as ‘the indispensable critic’ by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and expla …

Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet’s seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat of comparative literature and a landmark publication in the history of classical reception. As Highe …

King Lear, one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear …

Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola,   shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as …

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who …

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most read and beloved of all stage works. Now the most extensively annotated version of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the …

Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England’s throne. Richa …

"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of Iceman is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . . . Life, in Iceman, is what it is in Schopenhauer …

Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme "Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, " writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place liter …

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The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE …

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Every year since 1988 a major poet has selected seventy-five poems for publication in The Best American Poetry. The series has quickly grown in both sales and prestige, as poetry itself has seen a re …

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes ‘;a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom’s ima …

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatraone of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female character …

From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, a beloved professor who has taught the Bard for over half a centuryan intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Lear, arguably Shakespea …

From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello’s Iago, perhaps the Bard’s most compelling villainthe fourth in a series of five short books about the great p …

From Harold Bloom, the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare’s most complex and compelling anti-heroesthe final volume in a series of five …

A richly insightful reading of the King James Bible as a literary masterwork, published for the text's 400-year anniversary The King James Bible stands at "the sublime summit of literature i …

Shakespeare’s valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on …

Why Shakespeare? It’s been 400 years since his death and yet we continue to find inspiration, revelation, solace, and entertainment in his poems and plays. In this original collection, Susannah Carso …

A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic. In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collectio …

‘We are poised before…what I prophesy will be a major art.’—Harold Bloom ‘One of Australia’s most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light.’—Ed …

Harold Bloom realiza un acercamiento literario, crítico y ante todo humanista a los personajes que considera más relevantes de Shakespeare. El primero: Falstaff. Harold Bloom declaró sentirse especia …

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Harold Bloom realiza un acercamiento literario, crítico y ante todo humanista a los personajes que considera más relevantes de Shakespeare. La segunda: Cleopatra. Cleopatra, una de las mujeres por sí …

Según Harold Bloom, el príncipe Hamlet y el rey Lear son los personajes de Shakespeare que nos plantean el mayor reto: ‘La tragedia de Hamlet, príncipe de Dinamarca y La tragedia del rey Lear rivaliz …

Anyone who has ever said one thing and meant another has spoken in the mode of allegory. The allegorical expression of ideas pervades literature, art, music, religion, politics, business, and adverti …

‘Fake News’. A pesar de estar tan en boga en nuestros días, Shakespeare ya era consciente de la utilidad de este recurso a la hora de destruir destinos y por ello lo empleó como una de las ‘estrategi …

Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense in …

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Macbeth es una de las tragedias más leídas y escenificadas de Shakespeare. El protagonista, un guerrero distinguido, se transforma en asesino despiadado consumido por la duda y la ambición. William S …

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The French invented the restaurant in the late eighteenth century. Not long after, they invented gastronomy, the modern art of eating well: English society discovered the French chef and the English- …

The French invented the restaurant in the late eighteenth century. Not long after, they invented gastronomy, the modern art of eating well: English society discovered the French chef and the English- …

Fernando Pessoa é hoje um clássico da literatura mundial, e para esse reconhecimento decerto contribuiu a mais polémica obra de crítica literária dos últimos 30 anos: The Western Canon, de Harold Blo …

Fernando Pessoa es hoy un clásico de la literatura mundial, y para ese reconocimiento ha contribuido de forma certera la obra de crítica literaria más polémica de los últimos 30 años: El canon occide …

Fernando Pessoa est aujourd’hui un classique de la littérature mondiale, dont la reconnaissance a sans nul doute été favorisée par l’ouvrage de critique littéraire le plus polémique des trente derniè …

Fernando Pessoa è oggi un classico della letteratura mondiale e a tale riconoscimento ha certamente contribuito la più polemica delle opere di critica letteraria degli ultimi trenta anni: The Western …

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 A …