"The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on
living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness
beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as
soon as you can."So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary critic
of his generation, exhorts readers of his last book: one that
praises the sustaining power of poetry. "Passionate. . . . Perhaps
Bloom's most personal work, this is a fitting last testament to one
of America's leading twentieth-century literary minds."-Publishers
Weekly "An extraordinary testimony to a long life spent in the
company of poetry and an affecting last declaration of [Bloom's]
passionate and deeply unfashionable faith in the capacity of the
imagination to make the world feel habitable"-Seamus Perry,
Literary Review "Reading, this stirring collection testifies,
'helps in staying alive.'"-Kirkus Reviews, starred review 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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