Poetry and Repression
Revisionism from Blake to Stevens
Harold Bloom
"Poetry's job is to set up vibrations. Criticisms's job is to analyze them....
Show me but one paragraph of Bloom's approach to texts, and I'm hooked.
. . . I find sheer delight in his ingenious ways."-Kenneth Burke
"Poetry and Repression
moves through powerful and useful studies of the
strong poets of Romantic tradition toward a realm of speculation about the
nature of imaginative creation, and about how poems, considered as
manifestations of will, exist in time in their very struggle to outlast it. This
book brings Harold Bloom's recent theories of what lies below the language
of poems to bear on a central group of English and American writers."–
John Hollander $11.95
Day of the Leopards
Essays in Defense of Poems
W.
K .
Wimsatt
"These are splendid essays by one of the most acute, learned, and thoughtful
of scholar-critics writing at the top of his form. The essays are varied in
subject, but all of them are interesting and important, and all express the
ethos
of the same doughty, rational , humane, and liberal mind."-
M.
H. Abrams $12.50
The Holocaust and the Literary
Imagination
Lawrence
L.
Langer
Confronted with the unspeakable, the literary artist must yet find a voice.
This profoundly understanding book analyzes the imaginative works of
writers on the Holocaust-Elie Wiesel, Jerzy Kosinski, Jakov Lind, Heinrich
Boll, and others-to show how unmitigated horror has been transmuted into
art. $12.50
Twentieth-Century Russian .
Literary Criticism
edited by Victor Erlich
The vitality and diversity of modern Russian literary criticism are manifest
in this volume's seventeen essays, most of which appear here in English for
the first time. Critical perspectives and individual styles ranging from the
symbolists to contemporary Soviet critics are represented, with a
proportionately large number of selections from the formalists. $15.00
Yale
Yale University Press New Haven and London
