TAKE ARMS AGAINST A SEA OF TROUBLES

The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry This dazzling celebrat ion of the power of poetry to sublimate deathcompleted weeks before Harold Bloom diedshows how literature renews life amid what Mi lton called a universe of death. Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of lifes 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 again st time, loss of...[Read more]