An Emersonian Bloom (The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost) (Book Review) An Emersonian Bloom (The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost) (Book Review)

An Emersonian Bloom (The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost) (Book Review‪)‬

Modern Age 2005, Fall, 47, 4

    • 22,00 kr
    • 22,00 kr

Publisher Description

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, selected and with Commentary by Harold Bloom, New York: HarperCollins, 2004. 972 pp. HAROLD BLOOM is to be congratulated for his courage in speaking up for literary standards in an age of intellectual decline. It is difficult to fault a man who called the New York Times Book Review "not very literate" and summed up Stephen King as an "immensely inadequate writer on a sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, book by book basis." In 2003, the noted Professor of Literature at Yale chided the National Book Foundation for "recognizing nothing but the commercial value" of books. To his credit, Bloom has also spoken out regarding the "menace" to reading, "from grade school through graduate school throughout the English speaking world." The menace is "a reading governed by ideological and social considerations."

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2005
22 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
8
Pages
PUBLISHER
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc.
SIZE
185
KB

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