The Best Poems Of The English Language

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780060540425

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The Best Poems of the English Language by Harold Bloom Pdf

This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure's contribution. There are also headnotes by Harold Bloom to every poet in the volume as well as to the most important individual poems. Much more than any other anthology ever gathered, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of a sublime art with very nearly everything they need in a single volume. It also is regarded as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1439567018

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The Best Poems of the English Language by Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of key works of English-language poetry, selected by a Yale professor and the author of Genius, encompasses works that have been written over the course of six centuries and shares some of the selector's critical reflections from the past half century. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American poetry
ISBN : OCLC:1049803185

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The Best Poems of the English Language by Anonim Pdf

A collection of key works of English-language poetry encompasses works that have been written over the course of six centuries and shares some of the selector's critical reflections from the past half century.

Author : Oscar Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781982191542

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Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams Pdf

A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson. The last six hundred years in British and American literature have given us some of the most moving and memorable poems in all literature. Now, discover many of these same works in one gorgeously wrought collection, featuring entries from poets as legendary and beloved as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Lawrence, and many more. From Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberywocky” to Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and from Shakespeare’s sonnets to anonymous classics, this is the ultimate gift for poetry lovers of all ages and backgrounds. Arranged chronologically, the 150 poems featured in this stunning collection reflect the immortality of the poetic soul.

Author : Michael Alexander
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141918761

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The First Poems in English by Michael Alexander Pdf

This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and strength, in excerpts from Beowulf and in The Battle of Brunanburgh, depicting King Athelstan’s defeat of his northern enemies in 937 AD, while The Wanderer and The Seafarer reflect on exile, loss and destiny. The Gnomic Verses are proverbs on the natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles are witty linguistic puzzles. Love elegies include emotional speeches from an abandoned wife and separated lovers, and devotional poems include a vision of Christ’s cross in The Dream of the Rood, and Caedmon’s Hymn, perhaps the oldest poem in English, speaking in praise of God.

Author : Michael Alexander,Michael J. Alexander
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520015045

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The Earliest English Poems by Michael Alexander,Michael J. Alexander Pdf

Author : Philip Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486110271

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100 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith Pdf

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780060769666

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The Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom Pdf

A paperback original, Bloom's stand–alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an elegant guide to reading poetry––a master critic's distillation of a lifetime of teaching and criticism. He tackles such subjects as poetic voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself. Bloom writes "the work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves." This essay is an invaluable guide to poetry. This edition will also include a recommended reading list of poems.

Author : Oscar Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UVA:X000423509

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Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams Pdf

Author : Camille Paglia
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307425096

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Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia Pdf

America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones.

Author : Oscar Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780671496104

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Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams Pdf

447 British and American poems by 150 poets, including contemporary poets.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1647751071

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The 150 Most Famous Poems by Anonim Pdf

This great English Poetry Anthology contains 150 of the Most Famous Poems of the last centuries. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these famous poems remain Masterpieces of English Literature and continue to inspire and influence people all over the world. This poetry compilation comes in the size of 8x10 inches (20.32 x 25.4 cm) and is perfect as a gift for poetry lovers, literature students and teachers or to complete your own book collection. The following famous Poets are represented in this book: Matthew Arnold - William Blake - Anne Bradstreet - Rupert Brooke - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning -William Cullen Bryant - Robert Burns - George Gordon, Lord Byron - Lewis Carroll - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - E.E. Cummings - Walter John de la Mare - Emily Dickinson - John Donne - Paul Laurence Dunbar - T. S. Eliot - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Robert Frost - Mary Elizabeth Frye - Thomas Gray - Edgar Albert Guest - Felicia Hemans - William Ernest Henley - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Gerard Manley Hopkins - James Langston Hughes - Leigh Hunt - John Keats - Joyce Kilmer - Rudyard Kipling -Emma Lazarus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - James Lowell - Thomas Macaulay - Douglas Malloch - Christopher Marlowe - John Masefield - John McCrae - John Milton - Marianne Moore - Pablo Neruda - Edgar Allan Poe - Alexander Pope - Christina Rossetti - Carl Sandburg - Henry Scott-Holland - Alan Seeger - Robert W. Service - William Shakespeare - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Edmund Spenser - Gertrude Stein - Wallace Stevens - Robert Louis Stevenson - Sara Teasdale - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Henry David Thoreau - Walt Whitman - John Greenleaf Whittier - Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Oscar Wilde - William Carlos Williams - William Wordsworth - W.B. Yeats

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684868738

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Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Harold Bloom Pdf

The nation's most celebrated literary critic introduces children to the exciting world of literature through this collection of great stories by Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake, O. Henry, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and others. 100,000 first printing.

Author : Mick Short
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317887805

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Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose by Mick Short Pdf

Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature, adopting an accessible approach to the analysis of literary texts which can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages.

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486478777

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Great Short Poems from Around the World by Bob Blaisdell Pdf

This hardcover edition presents an international sampling of classic poetry. It features ancient Greek, Latin, and Persian poets such as Homer, Sappho, and Martial as well as Arabic, Chinese, German, Indian, Japanese, and Yiddish poems from the 12th century BC through the 20th century, plus English, Irish, and American classics by Yeats, Byron, Dickinson, and others.