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Alone with the Alone - Creative Imagination in the Sūfism of Ibn 'Arabī by Henry Corbin; Ralph Manheim (Translator); Prof. Harold Bloom (Foreword by)
Category: Religion | Series: Bollingen Ser.
Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism for the West, but also to defend the principal Western traditions of esoteric spirituality.--From the i ...Show more
American Canon - Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon by BLOOM HAROLD
Category: Languages and Reference
America's foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Walt Whitman to Ralph Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and more.
Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom
Category: Culture
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 eleg ...Show more
Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra--one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters. Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history--and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most int ...Show more
Cleopatra - I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom
Category: Biography | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history-and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. She is the lover of Marc Antony, defender of Egypt, and, perhaps most enduringly, a champion of life. Cleopatra is supremely vexing, tragic, and complex. She has fascin ...Show more
Falstaff: Give Me Life by Harold Bloom
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom's imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of ...Show more
Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheus by Harold (AFT) Douglas (INT); Bloom Mary Wollstonecraft; Clegg Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Signet Classics
Genius : A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time, a leading literary critic and author of The Book of J explores the mysteries of genius as expressed in one hundred of the most creative minds in history, including Socarates, Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Hemingway, Whitman, and other nota
Hamlet by Harold Bloom
Category: Poetry
Uncovers the mystery of both Prince Hamlet and the play, how both prince and drama are able to break through the conventions of theatrical mimesis and the representation of character, making us question the very nature of theatrical illusion.