Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
Written by Harold Bloom
Narrated by Mort Crim
4/5
()
About this audiobook
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. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best. This book is published by Harvard University Press.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He has written more than sixty books, including Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air, Falstaff: Give Me Life, The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and How to Read and Why. He is a MacArthur Prize fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards, including the Academy’s Gold Medal for Criticism. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
More audiobooks from Harold Bloom
How to Read and Why Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of a Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Ruin the Sacred Truths
Related audiobooks
The Waste Land and Other Poems: read by Edoardo Ballerini Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Goethe: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life of Samuel Johnson Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tragedy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Essential T.S. Eliot Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHomer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Homer: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Aspects of the Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Moby Dick: America's Epic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Odyssey of the West VI: A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Twentieth Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Essays First Series Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIago: The Strategies of Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Favourite Essays: An Anthology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lear: The Great Image of Authority Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Literature Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Falstaff: Give Me Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The History of English Poetry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5William Blake Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRichard Burton reads the poetry of John Donne Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Essential John Milton Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Percy Bysshe Shelley Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Studies in Classic American Literature Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Faerie Queene Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Poetry For You
Milk and Honey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Strength In Our Scars Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun and Her Flowers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inferno of Dante Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poetry of Walt Whitman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Citizen: An American Lyric Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Raven Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Metamorphoses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Keats - The Poetry Of Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Ruin the Sacred Truths
17 ratings0 reviews