Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry & Belief from the Bible to the Present
1 The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

Ruin the Sacred Truths

Poetry & Belief from the Bible to the Present

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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom
1987 • 220 pages

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Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel 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.

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The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures is a 20-book series with 1 primary work first released in 1941 with contributions by Toni Morrison, Siegfried Giedion, and Igor Stravinsky.

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