Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684868733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 584

Book Description
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.

How to Read and Why

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684859076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
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 this eloquent invitation to readers to read and read well.

Where Shall Wisdom be Found?

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
In this inspiring book, a preeminent literary critic, takes readers from the Bible to 20th-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives.

Stories And Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756776664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 573

Book Description
The "New York Times Magazine" called Bloom "a colossus among critics . . . his enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant." In this enchanting anthology, Bloom brings his love of literature to the younger generation as he presents favorite poems and

Genius

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446527170
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 814

Book Description
In a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time, the literary critic explores the mysteries of genius as expressed in one hundred of the most creative minds in history, including Milton, Dante, and Whitman.

Stories and poems for extremely intelligent children of all ages. Selected by Harold Bloom

Author: Harold Bloom (compiler)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 573

Book Description

The Best Poems of the English Language

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060540427
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1012

Book Description
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.

Meow Ruff

Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618448944
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A collection of concrete poetry where an animal is built out of words on paper.

Shakespeare

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007292848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 774

Book Description
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.

Here's a Little Poem

Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Walker
ISBN: 9781406327113
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
An illustrated first book of poetry, 'Here's a Little Poem' contains over 60 verses from noted English and American authors, including Wendy Cope, Roger McGough, John Agard and Grace Nichols.