Ruin the sacred truths : poetry and belief from the Bible to the present
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Ruin the sacred truths : poetry and belief from the Bible to the present
（The Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 1987-88）
Harvard University Press, 1991, c1989
1st Harvard University Press paperback ed
- : pbk
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"An expanded text of the 1987-88 Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University"--Pref
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Description
Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best.
Table of Contents
1. The Hebrew Bible 2. From Homer to Dante 3. Shakespeare 4. Milton 5. Enlightenment and Romanticism 6. Freud and Beyond
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