"Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it." -The Philadelphia Inquirer"This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what...

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles von Bloom, Harold

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. He is the author of more than twenty books. von Bloom, Harold

Shakespeare: Die Erfindung des Menschlichen, 1: Kömodien und Historien

"To read Bloom's insights here is to bask in the emanation of genius. As entertaining and erudite as his choices of the works he most loves are, the book's overriding strength is the guidance it gives, in context and comprehension."...

Bloom, the best-known literary critic of our time, shares his extensive knowledge of and profound joy in the works of a constellation of major writers, including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Austen, Dickinson, Melville, Wilde, and O'Connor in...

"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of...