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Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present Day (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present Day (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

by HBloom (Author)

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    Hardcover 1989

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Discusses the concept of the sacred and the secular in western literature, and agrues that poetry cannot be judged by socially constructed criteria.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 204
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Jul 1989
ISBN 10: 0674780272
ISBN 13: 9780674780279

Media Reviews
Bloom's puissance is not entirely his own; for some of it, he is indebted to Nietzsche, Freud, Schopenhauer, Gershom Scholem, and other masters. But enough of it is his own to constitute a distinctive form of splendor.--Denis Donoghue New York Review of Books
In some ways the wildest of the wild men (and women), in some ways the most traditional of the traditionalists, Harold Bloom remains serene amid the turbulence--much of it caused by him. He stands dauntless, a party of one, as thrilling to behold up on the high wire as he is (at times) throttling to read on the page...From this strong critic dealing with these strong poets comes a potent mix of insight.--Mark Feeney Boston Globe
The wit, the eclecticism and the gripping paradoxes...the force of [Bloom's] intellect carries the reader from pinnacle to pinnacle, showing a new spiritual landscape from each.--Roger Scruton Washington Times