Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
The Power of a Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
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Harold Bloom
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The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry.
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 listeners 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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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love. With Julius Caesar, the great playwright produced a drama of astonishing and perpetual relevance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lowest WPM Ever
- De Ronald en 11-16-11
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Possessed by Memory
- The Inward Light of Criticism
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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In arguably his most personal and lasting work, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors - texts he has had by heart since childhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What an endowment!
- De Norman en 04-03-21
De: Harold Bloom
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Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
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Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth's interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character. The book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great analysis
- De So far so good no issues yet. Seeing how they work with my golf simulator en 02-05-25
De: Harold Bloom
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Iago
- The Strategies of Evil
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
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In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Moor's Not Nice Guy - friend
- De Darwin8u en 02-13-20
De: Harold Bloom
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Ruin the Sacred Truths
- Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Mort Crim
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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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 Illiad, 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.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not one of Bloom's best
- De Benjamin Myers en 03-31-17
De: Harold Bloom
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Falstaff
- Give Me Life
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Falstaff brooks no rebuttal.
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-20
De: Harold Bloom
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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bloom being Bloom
- De C. Yuen en 10-05-23
De: Harold Bloom
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Tyrant
- Shakespeare on Politics
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Close for Comfort
- De C. Gross en 05-10-18
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Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are in high school and college and another when we are adults, Bloom explains his shifting understanding of Cleopatra over the course of his own lifetime.
De: Harold Bloom
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Will in the World
- How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world. An acclaimed interpreter of Shakespeare's works, his ideas have changed the way countless people approach the classics. Now Greenblatt's uniquely brilliant voice delivers a magnificent biography of the Bard himself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Politically Motivated
- De Donald en 09-29-04
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
- De: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 28 h y 22 m
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The first new collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grab it
- De Davol2449 en 09-02-11
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
- De: Robert Burton
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 56 h y 49 m
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First published in 1621, and hardly ever out of print since, it is a huge, varied, idiosyncratic, entertaining and learned survey of the experience of melancholy, seen from just about every possible angle that could be imagined. The Anatomy of Melancholy, presented here with all the original quotations in English, is, at last, available on audiobook in its entirety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nam Et Doctis Hisce Erroribus Versatus Sum
- De Darwin8u en 05-26-20
De: Robert Burton
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius—a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very compelling history, a less compelling thesis
- De A reader en 05-01-12
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Shakespeare: The Complete Works
- Argo Classics
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, Diana Rigg, y otros
- Duración: 98 h y 55 m
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All of the Shakespeare plays within the Argo Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great collection marred by a few missing sections
- De J. T. Woosley en 02-27-21
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The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
- De: Daniel N. Robinson, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Daniel N. Robinson
- Duración: 30 h y 11 m
- Grabación Original
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Grasp the important ideas that have served as the backbone of philosophy across the ages with this extraordinary 60-lecture series. This is your opportunity to explore the enormous range of philosophical perspectives and ponder the most important and enduring of human questions-without spending your life poring over dense philosophical texts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Hard Review to Write
- De Ark1836 en 11-20-15
De: Daniel N. Robinson, y otros
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- Jesse
- 12-24-20
Culmination of Bloom’s Wisdom
An excellent selection interwoven with insightful and wise commentary. Easy to navigate with the chapter headings. Narration is well done.
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