“What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.”

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Books by Harold Bloom

The Critical Perspective

1985

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Shakespeare

1999

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Bloom's Notes

1996

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1986

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Othello

2008

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