CD Audiobook
Take arms against a sea of troubles : the power of the reader's mind over a universe of death / Harold Bloom.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781705003930
- ISBN: 1705003931
- ISBN: 9781664795037
- ISBN: 1664795030
- Physical Description: 16 audio discs (20 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged
- Publisher: [Prince Frederick, Maryland] : Recorded Books, Inc., [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prelude: reading to stay alive, poetic thinking -- Introduction: the rhetoric of poetic thinking -- William Shakespeare and John Milton: in every deep, a lower deep -- Milton: the Shakespearean epic -- Milton and William Blake: the human form divine -- William Wordsworth and John Keats: something evermore about to be -- Wordsworth: the myth of memory -- Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron: serpent and eagle -- Keats: they seek no wonder but the human face -- Robert Browning: what in the midst lay but the tower itself? -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: lest one good custom should corrupt the world -- Walt Whitman: I stop somewhere waiting for you -- Robert Frost: drink and be whole again beyond confusion -- Wallace Stevens: the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind -- William Butler Yeats and D.H. Lawrence: start with the shadow -- Hart Crane: the unknown God -- Sigismund Schlomo Freud: speculation and wisdom -- Dante/Center and Shakespeare/Circumference |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini |
| Summary, etc.: | "The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry. This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death--completed days 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 |
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| Subject: | Poetry > History and criticism. Poetry. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Literary criticism. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Hall Memorial Library - Ellington.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | BOCD 808.1 BLOOM (Text) | 34037146735503 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
