Poets And Poems (Bloom's Literary Criticism 20th Anniversary Collection)

507 Pages·2005·1.85 MB·English

by  Harold Bloom

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BLOOM’S LITERARY 20THANNIVERSARY COLLECTION
CRITICISM
Dramatists and Dramas
The Epic
Essayists and Prophets
Novelists and Novels
Poets and Poems
Short Story Writers and Short Stories
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Harold Bloom
Sterling Professor of the Humanities
Yale University
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bloom, Harold.
Poets and poems / Harold Bloom.
p. cm. — (Bloom’s 20th anniversary collection)
ISBN 0-7910-8225-3 (hc) — ISBN 0-7910-8364-0 (pb) 1. Poetry, Modern—
History and criticism. I. Title.
PN1161.B56 2005
809.1’03—dc22
2005008636
Cover designed by Takeshi Takahashi
Cover illustration by David Levine
Layout by EJB Publishing Services
Table of Contents
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PREFACE S
Harold Bloom
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INTRODUCTION

Harold Bloom P
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Petrarch (1304–1374) M
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William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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John Donne and the 17th-Century Metaphysical Poets
(1572–1631)
11
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672)
20
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
26
William Blake (1757–1827)
33
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
51
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
60
Lord Byron (1788–1824)
77
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
117
John Keats (1795–1821)
146
Alexandr Pushkin (1799–1837)
157
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
164
Robert Browning (1812–1889)
169
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
192
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
202
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
204
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
212
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
214
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1850–1892)
217
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)
227
A.E. Housman (1859–1936)
233
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
237
Paul Valéry (1871–1945)
241
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
247
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
249
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
256
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
270
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
279
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
285
Claude McKay (1889–1948)
294
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962)
296
Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
298
Robert Graves (1895–1985)
299
Allen Tate (1899–1979)
307
Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989)
309
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
311
Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
314
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)
315
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
323
W.H. Auden (1907–1973)
335
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
340
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
345
Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
348
John Berryman (1914–1972)
352
Octavio Paz (1914–1998)
356
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
363
James Dickey (1923–1997)
365
John Ashbery (1927–)
381
W.S. Merwin (1927–)
398
Derek Walcott (1930–)
404
Geoffrey Hill (1932–)
407
Mark Strand (1934–)
417
Jay Wright (1935–)
421
Seamus Heaney (1939–)
446
Anne Carson (1950– )
456
FURTHERREADING 468
INDEX 471
ABOUTTHEAUTHOR 488