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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles

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ISBN: 9780300261530
Published: 2021
Number of pages: 672
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 23.5×15.6

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This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death – completed weeks 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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