Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens - Hardcover

Bloom, Prof. Harold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300019238 ISBN 13: 9780300019230

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1976

Synopsis

This reinterpretation of the full sweep of English and American romantic poetry offers close readings of poems of Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Yeats, and Stevens. It also reviews the crucial ideas of Emerson, Nietzsche, and in particular Freud, whose psychoanalytic theory of repression and defense Bloom undertakes to revise for purposes of literary criticism. "Bloom offers a fully defined alternative to the principal modes of contemporary criticism, from Freudian literary criticism (which he insists is neither Freudian nor literary criticism) to the New Criticism and structuralist and archetypal approaches. It is an original, vigorous, and passionate study which is both compelling and provocative."-The British Studies Monitor "Show me but one paragraph of Bloom's approaches to texts, and I'm hooked. . . . I find sheer delight in his ingenious ways."-Kenneth Burke "Bloom has made a remarkable contribution to poetic theory."-Phoebe Pettingell, The New Leader

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0300019238
• ISBN 13: 9780300019230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304