Summary
Whether you want to visit Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, or the Spanish Steps of Rome, Bloom’s Literary Places provides readers and travelers with the ultimate literary guides to major cities around world. Each book in this engaging series highlights all the literary places within each city that have played a major role in literature throughout history—including museums, bookstores, theaters, and other significant sites.
Each title features:
- An overview of the city as it exists today, detailing population, culture, politics, and major attractions
- A unique combination of cultural and literary history
- Visitor information for many of the city's literary treasures
- An introduction with Harold Bloom.
Specifications
8-page, full-color insert. Bibliography. Further reading. Places of interest. Index.
About the Author(s)
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), Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005), and The Anatomy of Influence (2011). 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.