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Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles

The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2020

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The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry

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Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. His books include The Anatomy of Influence, The Shadow of a Great Rock, and Poetry and Repression.

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    Contents

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    PRELUDE Reading to Stay Alive— Poetic Thinking

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    INTRODUCTION The Rhetoric of Poetic Thinking

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    1. William Shakespeare and John Milton

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    2. Milton

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    3. Milton and William Blake

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    4. William Words worth and John Keats

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    5. Words worth

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    6. Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron

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    7. Keats

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    8. Robert Browning

    333
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    9. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    356
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    10. Walt Whitman

    379
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    11. Robert Frost

    409
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    12. Wallace Stevens

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    13. William Butler Yeats and D. H. Lawrence

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    14. Hart Crane

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    15. Sigismund Schlomo Freud

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    16. Dante/Center and Shakespeare/Circumference

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    Credits

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    Index

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9780300255812
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