Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind Over a Universe of Death by Bloom, Harold

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind Over a Universe of Death

"The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your...
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Author: Harold Bloom
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind Over a Universe of Death by Bloom, Harold

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind Over a Universe of Death

¥11,225

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind Over a Universe of Death

¥11,225
Author: Harold Bloom
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can."So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary critic of his generation, exhorts readers of his last book: one that praises the sustaining power of poetry.

"Passionate. . . . Perhaps Bloom's most personal work, this is a fitting last testament to one of America's leading twentieth-century literary minds."--Publishers Weekly

"An extraordinary testimony to a long life spent in the company of poetry and an affecting last declaration of [Bloom's] passionate and deeply unfashionable faith in the capacity of the imagination to make the world feel habitable"--Seamus Perry, Literary Review

"Reading, this stirring collection testifies, 'helps in staying alive.'"--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death--completed weeks before Harold Bloom died--shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called "a universe of death." Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of life's troubles, taking readers on a grand tour of the poetic voices that have haunted him through a lifetime of reading. "High literature," he writes, "is a saving lie against time, loss of individuality, premature death." In passages of breathtaking intimacy, we see him awake late at night, reciting lines from Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Blake, Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Jay Wright, and many others. He feels himself "edged by nothingness," uncomprehending, but still sustained by reading. Generous and clear-eyed, this is among Harold Bloom's most ambitious and most moving books.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780300247282


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2020

About the Author
Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. His books include The Anatomy of Influence, The Shadow of a Great Rock, and Poetry and Repression.

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