The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer through Robert Frost

“To read Bloom’s insights here is to bask in the emanation
of genius. As entertaining and erudite as his choices of the works he most
loves are, the book’s overriding strength is the guidance it gives, in context
and comprehension.” –Baltimore Sun

This comprehensive anthology offers renowned critic Harold
Bloom’s choice of the best of six centuries of great British and American
poetry, selected in accordance with his three absolute criteria: aesthetic
splendor, intellectual power, and wisdom. In B...