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Ruin the sacred truths : poetry and belief from the Bible to the present

Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel 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.
Print Book, English, 1991
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1991
Criticism, interpretation, etc
204 pages ; 23 cm
9780674780286, 9780674780279, 0674780280, 0674780272
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1. The Hebrew Bible 2. From Homer to Dante 3. Shakespeare 4. Milton 5. Enlightenment and Romanticism 6. Freud and Beyond
"An expanded text of the 1987-88 Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University"--Preface