Ruin the sacred truths : poetry and belief from the Bible to the present
Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best
Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 1987-1988, 1987-88
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (204 pages)
9780674023109, 9780674780286, 0674023102, 0674780280
464639989
The Hebrew Bible
From Homer to Dante
Shakespeare
Milton
Englightenment and romanticism
Freud and beyond
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English