The best poems of the English language : from Chaucer through Robert Frost

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 elegant guide to reading poetry--a master critic’s distillation of a lifetime of teaching and criticism. He tackles such subjects as poetic voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself. Blooms writes “the work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves.” This essay is an invaluable guide to poetry. This edition will also include a recommended reading list of poems. [This book] is a comprehensive anthology that offers the reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The vast scope of this anthology begins with Chaucer and ends with poets whose births predate 1900 ... Featured in this volume is an ... essay called "The Art of Reading Poetry." This essay presents [the author's] critical reflections ... and conveys his passionate concern for how a poem should be interpreted and appreciated.-Dust jacket A collection of key works of English-language poetry encompasses works that have been written over the course of six centuries and shares some of the selector's critical reflections from the past half century A collection of key works of English language poetry encompasses works that have been written over the course of six centuries and shares some of the selector's critical reflections from the past half century Selected And With Commentary By Harold Bloom. Includes Index.