TAKE ARMS AGAINST A SEA OF TROUBLE

This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate deathcompleted weeks before Harold Bloom diedshows how literature re news life amid what Milton called a universe of death. Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of lifes troubles, tak ing 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 ...[Llegir més]