The Hobbit

Name: The Hobbit
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By (author): Harold Bloom Prof. Harold Bloom

J.R.R. Tolkien drew on his professorial expertise in Anglo-Saxon literature and the early mythology and folklore of Great Britain in creating this popular classic centering on the perils of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo became one of the author's most enduring and vividly realized creations in this precursor to the legendary The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Yale literary scholar Harold Bloom introduces this compilation of concise critical excerpts, which also includes an annotated bibliography and an index for easy reference. See more

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Weight: 280g
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2011
Publisher: Facts On File Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781617530036

About Harold BloomProf. Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. Educated at Cornell and Yale universities he is the author of 30 books including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959) The Visionary Company (1961) Blake's Apocalypse (1963) Yeats (1970) A Map of Misreading (1975) Kabbalah and Criticism (1975) Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982) The American Religion (1992) The Western Canon (1994) Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels Dreams and Resurrection (1996) and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998) a 1998 National Book Award finalist. The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books include How to Read and Why (2000) Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002) Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003) Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (2004) and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In addition he is the author of hundreds of articles reviews and editorial introductions. In 1999 Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.