<div>&#8220;A colossus among critics. . . . His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant.&#8221; &#8212;New York TimesIn this charming anthology, esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom collects the last poems of history's most important and celebrated poets. As with his immensely popular Best Poems of the English Language, Bloom has carefully curated and annotated the final works of one hundred poets in Till I End My Song, with selections from John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, John Milton, Herman Melville, Emily Bront&#235;, and others. Written with the same wise and discerning commentary of earlier books&#8212;including his acclaimed Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and The Book of J&#8212;Till I End My Song is a moving and provocative meditation on the relationship between art, meaning, and ultimately, death, from the literary titan of our time.</div>

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<div>The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Bloom&#39;s The Western Canon is more than a required reading list&mdash;it is a &ldquo;heroically brave, formidably learned&rdquo; defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western Canon. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the essential writers of the western literary tradition (The New York Times Book Review).Placing William Shakespeare at the &ldquo;center of the canon,&rdquo; Bloom examines the literary contributions of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Pablo Neruda, and many others. Bloom&#39;s book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition and passion.&ldquo;An impressive work&hellip;deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.&rdquo;&mdash;Michel Dirda, The Washington Post Book World</div>

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<div>From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello&rsquo;s Iago, perhaps the Bard&rsquo;s most compelling villain&#8212;the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright&rsquo;s most significant personalities. Few antagonists in all of literature have displayed the ruthless cunning and deceit of Iago. Denied the promotion he believes he deserves, Iago takes vengeance on Othello and destroys him. One of William Shakespeare&rsquo;s most provocative and culturally relevant plays, Othello is widely studied for its complex and enduring themes of race and racism, love, trust, betrayal, and repentance. It remains widely performed across professional and community theatre alike and has been the source for many film and literary adaptations. Now award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Iago&rsquo;s motives and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. Why and how does Iago use lies and deception&#8212;the fake news of the 15th century&#8212;to destroy Othello and several other characters in his path? What can Othello tell us about racism? Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, treating Shakespeare&rsquo;s characters like people he has known all his life. He delivers exhilarating intimacy and clarity in these pages, writing about his shifting understanding&#8212;over the course of his own lifetime&#8212;of this endlessly compelling figure, so that Iago also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. &ldquo;There are few readers more astute than Bloom&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly), and his Iago is a provocative study for our time.</div>

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