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Book SynopsisWonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it. —The Philadelphia Inquirer
This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happens once we 'shuffle off this mortal coil.' —The Christian Science Monitor
An elegiac meditation on a life lived through books. —O, The Oprah Magazine
The great critic revisits the literature that has meant most to him. —The New York Times Book ReviewHere is the daringly original literary critic's most personal book: a four-part spiritual autobiography in the form of brief, luminous readings of poetry, drama, and prose—much of which he has known by heart since childhood. As one of his own mentors, M. H. Abrams, has said, to read Bloom's commentaries is like reading classic authors by flashes of lightning. Gone are the polemics; here Bloom argue
