The First Age (Theocratic) of Harold Blooms Canon (Part 2)
Discover Harold Bloom's First Age canon list, featuring classic works like The Arabian Nights, Beowulf, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and the Norse Eddas. Explore the theocratic foundations of literature through these timeless myths, epics, and poetry—a curated journey into the origins of storytelling and the Western imagination.
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Lucretius: The Way Things Are
by Titus Lucretius Carus
Verse translation of Lucretius's epic Latin poem explaining the universe, within the framework of Epicurean philosophy.
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
by Ovid
Through Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid-is revealed anew. " An] extraordinary translation...brilliant" (Booklist). With an Introduction by the Translator.
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Beowulf
by Seamus Heaney
Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
In the late 1920s, the art publisher H. Piazza produced a twelve volume version of The 1001 Noghts that was one of the most beautiful ever made. It included splendid illustrations by Mohammed Racim and wonderful miniatures by painter Leon Carre. Today, Assouline is publishing an abridged version of this masterpiece, which includes the most famous and most enchanting of the tales - from the story of King Shahryar, to Sinbad the sailor, to Ali Baba and forty thieves, and Aladdin and the magic lamp - all told by the beautiful and sensual Shahrazed. This wonderful book is one of the classics that will stand next to the most handsome book in your library. For The 1001 Nights is a cultural testimony of the past, the source of myths and beliefs of the East. A collection of extraordinary stories from India and Persia passed down orally and told at night in public squares, this unique work is on a par with Homer's Odyssey. 400 illustrations and ornaments
