Harold Bloom's Best Books (Top 20 Ranked & Reviewed) 

This the only channel that I follow about literature,the other ones are all hipsters with a cup of tea enjoying themselves saying obvious things about books learnt on school. I can see that you instead are very passionate in what you do and you talk about the book themselves and not about other useless things. Great channel,and I like also your accent

It's an adorable surprise! I can't believe I found you talking about Harold Bloom. I am a Brazilian learning the English language through poetry. Years ago, I found a book about Shakespeare in my neighborhood. I just opened this book this morning to read it. My first surprise of the day was to realize that the book author is Harold Bloom. Two years ago, I bought the book "The Best Poems of the English Language" and I fell in love with Bloom's passion for English Literature. And now I find you,here, talking about professor Bloom and recommending the book I found in my neighborhood : Shakespeare The Invention of the Human. Sometimes life can just be perfect! I also want to thank you for your incredible work in Literature.

Yes, please keep making videos. I’ve found great value in almost everything you’ve produced. You’ve given me great insights into the world of literature and “How to Read”, even though I’ve been reading for 50+ years 😉. Thank you!

Wonderful video! I have the Western Canon and The Best Poems of the English Language, and I find it very challenging (not a native speaker), but still seeing your enthusiasm on Bloom makes me keep adding his books to my cart. And I truly believe one day I will be able to enjoy his books, which can give me wayyyyy deeper understanding and appreciation on the great books!

Bravo! This is brilliant! I am a huge Bloom devotee. I also regretted not going to meet him but I sent and received two emails from him which were and continue to be very touching to me. I have printed and put them inside two of his books. Professor Bloom would be proud of your reviews and recommendations! Well done sir!

I am so happy to have discovered your channel. Now that my children are adults, I've been at loose ends about what to do with myself. You've inspired me to brush off my English degree and dive back in the great books.

I’ve only read a smattering of Bloom. But this video inspires me to take a deeper dive into his works. Thank you.

You never cease to educate me and recommend truly amazing works and things to read. I thank you for furthering my understanding and challenging my reading.

Our living tradition was in good hands with Harold Bloom. I just bought “The Ringers In The Tower” and I’ve appreciated his insight for years. All the best critics possess their own creative genius.

Your enthusiasm for Bloom is refreshing to me as his interest in great art for great art's sake was refreshing to you. Videos like this make me wish YT would provide us with a "shoebox" in which we could put the videos we MUST view again rather than mark them as ones we merely like and must leave them undistinguished to be lost in the sea of videos we merely like. Your work stands out. Thanks!!!

Exciting video. At age 82, I'm glad I gave up regret as a stupifying and totally counterproductive emotion some time ago, else I'd be wishing I had more time left to read all, or most, of the wonderful books you recommend here and elsewhere. As it is, I'll have to make some hasty decisions. Where to start...? I deplore the tendency of some teachers and critics to reduce art to politics, social justice theory, or psychology. I suspect that Bloom might often feel very akin to me. Listening to some Bloom lectures on RU-vid I've been impressed by a genuine modesty and courteous warmth that remind me of some of my own best teachers. I must say your own outlook reminds me of them, too. Thank you, Mr. McEvoy.

Just happened across your videos today, as I’m reading Dostoevsky for the first time. What a breath of fresh air they are! And wonderful to see a bloke (only slightly) younger than myself with such admiration for the great Harold Bloom. I only discovered him myself a few years ago; I now return almost weekly to How to Read and Why and the Western Canon; and the Invention of the Human reinvigorated my enthusiasm for Shakespeare, and introduced me to earlier classics like Goddard. Great work, Benjamin!

Great video! Oh, how I wish I was blessed with the ability to read fast. (I also wish I had your accent.) What I love about Bloom is how much he loves what he reads and he encourages us to love. As soon as one heavily politicizes the work, it gets in the way of enjoying it. It’s fine to point out cringy parts but let’s enjoy the uplifting parts. Thank you for taking the time to make this.

I have ‘the invention of the human’ and ‘the western canon’ . I’m so glad I found your channel. I love Shakespeare! Thank you so much!

Thank you for this video and its contents, i.e., your presentation. I don't know when i'll get it done, but you have stimulated me to read some of the Bloom books that have fallen through my cracks.

Wonderful Bloom recommendations! 😊 1. I think the Bloom Guides are a great way into Bloom and the book in question. I would include the Bloom's Modern Critical Views, too, for which he wrote introductions to each of these authors and/or their works (e.g. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Stephen King). There's also Bloom's Classic Critical Views in which the literary critics are predominantly historical literary critics rather than contemporary or modern literary critics. Bloom's introductions in these series are brief but usually thought-provoking even if I don't always agree with him. He's very opinionated, even pugilistic, but the flipside of this is that his opinion on a matter is clear and lucid. 2. Personally, I'd prefer to shy away recommending Bloom's more academic works like The Anxiety of Influence - at least initially. I think these kinds of books tend to bog one down in modern literary debates which, if anything, are more likely to detract than cultivate or contribute to the pleasures of reading the classics; yet my very favorite aspect of Bloom his sheer delight in reading great literature. I think his joy is infectious, and I'd prefer to see that part of Bloom rub off onto people who are first reading Bloom than the academic debates, his underlying literary critical philosophy, the Freudianism, etc. Not saying these things aren't important to consider, but I think they'd be better suited at a later stage in reading Bloom or at least only initially suited for a certain type of person. 3. I have a huge amount of respect and love for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, but it's a fairly large tome! Hard for the first time reader to get into. Unless they love Shakespeare. Or at least it might be best to read something like the great Shakespeare scholar Stanely Wells's shorter books like William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction or Shakespeare's Tragedies or the like, and then read Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. 4. That said, I'd recommend Novelists and Novels by Bloom. Granted, this is also quite a lengthy book, but one need't read the entire book. Rather, read a novel, then read the chapter in this book about the novel you've read. Bloom offers a lot of helpful and insightful information, though they're not necessarily spoiler-free so I'd recommend reading the novel first, unless you don't mind spoilers! Anyway, this is a good book to get to dip into as the need arises. 5. By the way, I likewise love his Bright Book of Life, but I think a lot of it regurgitates material from Bloom's past works like Novelists and Novels. At the same time, though, he does seem to update some of his past opinions with new ones in the Bright Book of Life, though I don't think they're significantly updated, at least not from what I saw, so if one already owns the former Novelists and Novels then it might not be worth picking up the latter Bright Book of Life. At any rate, the Bright Book of Life seems to be a bit of a Duke's mixture of sorts. My preference would be for the earliest Novelists and Novels if one can't read both. 6. Poets and Poems is the poetic counterpart Novelists and Novels. I'd highly recommend this one if you like poetry. 7. I agree with the Western Canon and the American Canon. Both wonderful Bloom books in general. 8. How to Read and Why is, I think, the best introduction to Bloom if one can only read one of his books in his corpus. In fact, I think it's probably the perfect introduction to Bloom. It is relatively short for Bloom (less than 300 pages) and it's got a good mix of Bloom's thoughts on the great novels, short stories, plays, and poems. It's more broad than deep, but it hits all the right notes as one reads. 9. One last thing. I'm of two minds about Bloom's books on the Bible: a. On the one hand, Bloom has a well developed philosophy of aestheticism, and Bloom is highly sensitive in seeing and appreciating the literary beauties of the King James Version of the Bible as well as much of the underyling Hebrew (if I recall correctly, Bloom learned Yiddish and Hebrew before he learned English). He's also quite right about the New Testament not being much of a work of art. In this respect, Bloom echoes the Renaissance scholar C.S. Lewis, most famous for his Narnia books, when Lewis said: "The New Testament in the original Greek is not a work of literary art: it is not written in a solemn, ecclesiastical language, it is written in the sort of Greek which was spoken over the eastern Mediterranean after Greek had become an international language and therefore lost its real beauty and subtlety. In it we see Greek used by people who have no real feeling for Greek words because Greek words are not the words they spoke when they were children. It is a sort of ‘basic’ Greek; a language without roots in the soil, a utilitarian, commercial and administrative language. Does this shock us? It ought not to, except as the Incarnation itself ought to shock us. The same divine humility which decreed that God should become a baby at a peasant-woman’s breast, and later an arrested field-preacher in the hands of the Roman police, decreed also that he should be preaching in a vulgar, prosaic and unliterary language. If you can stomach the one, you can stomach the other. The Incarnation is in that sense an irreverent doctrine: Christianity, in that sense, an incurably irreverent religion. When we expect that it should have come before the Word in all the beauty that we now feel in the Authorized Version we are as wide of the mark as the Jews were in expecting that the Messiah would come as a great earthly king. The real sanctity, the real beauty and sublimity of the New Testament (as of Christ’s life) are of a different sort: miles deeper or further in." By the way, quite interestingly, Bloom met many famous literary people in his life, and one of the earliest literary celebrities Bloom met was C.S. Lewis, which Bloom has written about in his introduction to Bloom's Modern Critical Views on C.S. Lewis. b. On the other hand, I find Bloom bases much if not most of his analysis of the Bible on dated literary theory, viz. documentary hypothesis and its various models (e.g. JEPD theory), which contemporary biblical scholars have moved beyond. Indeed, even what exists today in terms of the documentary hypothesis is more a relic of 19th century to early 20th century biblical scholarship. See, among other people, the late Robert Gottlieb's comments on Bloom, for example. Gottlieb was an almost exact contemporary of Bloom's, just one or two years younger as I remember. Both men were Jewish, though Gottlieb more secular than Bloom; both grew up in NYC, though Gottlieb on the Upper West Side, unlike Bloom who grew up poorer; both attended Ivy League institutions as well as Cambridge University, though Bloom went on to work in academia, whereas Gottlieb decided not to pursue academia and instead became the editor for Simon and Schuster (where he famously discovered Joseph Heller and published Catch-22), Alfred A. Knopf, the New Yorker, and frequently contributed to the New York Times Book Review and others. Sorry, I'm rambling! But anyway, while I highly value Bloom on the aesthetics of the Bible, as well as its literary value in general, I wouldn't put too much stock into anything else Bloom says about the Bible. To be fair, as I've alluded, Bloom is always interesting to read, even or perhaps especially when one disagrees with him! So all in all I still love Bloom and appreciate his literary criticism very much.

Brilliant thank you for this video so much. I have the How to Read and Why but just had to go and get the Shakespeare, the invention of the human. I am also quite keen to get the children’s book one, for myself really. Gradually I will add to my Bloom collection.

I've been waiting for you making a video featuring Harold Bloom. Thank you very much! I read only 'How to Read and Why' and 'Anxiety of Influence'. 'How to Read and Why' was a good starter and showed me a wonderful reading list. 'Anxiety of Influence' was challenging for me and I didn't understand most part of it. I should try less challenging book of his, maybe Anthology, and then I'll dig into his other works you presented on the video. Thank you so much for making the video. And I'd appreciate it if you could make a video of Introduction to 'Anxiety of Influence' or another challenging book of Harold Bloom.

I'm late to this channel but think I've found a jewel. Thank you for introduction to Harold Bloom. Look forward to reading 📚 some of his books on a hot AZ summer afternoon. Thanks again.

Fantastic video! So glad I found your channel. All your videos are so fascinating and insightful. Thanks so much

Great video! I've read some of Bloom's introductions but never actually had a copy of one of his books. I'm going to keep an eye out for Shakespeare The Invention of the Human.

I've read, The Western Canon and, How to read and why. Because of those works I started to memorise a few chosen poems, particularly Tennyson and it brings constant joy. Love your channel and your enthusiasm for reading - just starting in on The Count of Monte Cristo.

Your list is great. I'm interested in the Western Canon and the Stories and Poems for extremely intelligent Children of all Ages (whew, what a title!). But the first one you mentioned 'Shakespeare . . ." I like the sound of that, too.

Really nice! I've read a few of these already, but not "The Bright Book of Life". I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks.

Your videos are always like a kind of savory, enjoyable mental food to me :) .. keep up posting my friend!

Hey Benjamin, I love your videos. As a new reader, I’ve tried couple bloom’s essay on the great literatures. However, I find it hard to really relate and share the appreciation of his essays because I’m not familiar with the works he was writing about. Would you suggest one to return to bloom after becoming a more well rounded reader? If not, which bloom would you suggest one to start on?

I just dipped into a bit of Bloom's 'Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human' as I thought it would supplement my understanding of Othello (a book I am studying my a-level). I have to say the chapter on Othello is really quite good. I know this is not necessarily his quote, but Bloom quotes a man called William Hazlitt and it is a fantastic quote - Iago is a man who "stabs men in the dark to prevent ennui".

I have WAY too many Harold Bloom books, and I find them addicting and want to get them all (I'm sure I have 20-30, minimum). That being said, I can't believe the comments are all so positive here and no one is complaining about Bloom. As I said above, I have most of his major books, but God, he could really make me angry at times. I like your own commentary much more than Blooms, Benjamin, but yeah, I certainly see that you are heavily influenced by Bloom and also How to Read, which I probably personally prefer to How to Read and Why in terms of actually educating readers in terms of their appreciation, retention, and overall experience. One of my larger issues with Bloom is how often he repeats himself from book to book, and basically says the same stock phrases about most authors across his books (I don't think I've read any of his pre-1980 books, though, and I've heard that Anxiety of Influence is his best, and certainly one day I will read that), almost like Homer's stock phrases for his heroes in the Iliad/Odyssey ("rosy-fingered dawn," "swift-footed Achilleus," etc.).

Benjamin McEvoy is our new Harold Bloom!

It is through Bloom that I had my idea of what literary criticism is (it changes as I read more critics, but he is literally the one who has 'enlightened' me when it comes to this matter). Nevertheless I have never really finished reading any of his works. The Anxiety of Influence is too hard for me back then, the Anatomy of Influence is nicer (but I didn't finish that either). Your video made me wish to dive into his works again, and this time I want to start with Possessed by Memory. Thank you for all this :)

On occasion I manage to stumble upon a truly good channel. I did this morning. Thank you Benjamin.

This was a good one. I've read The Western Canon and bits of a few others. I bought a copy of The American Canon during lockdown but haven't opened it yet. My gateway into more literary reading was The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton J. Fadiman. Thank God for wise men of letters who provided maps for the sons and daughters of folks far less bookish than they'd like to be now.

I had the greatest opportunity to go to Harold Bloom lectures in New York four times. At that time i only read a few of his book reviews, which Inevitably drew me to his own writings. I am a lover of Shakespeares work since grammar school. Harold Bloom, Shakespeare invention of the human was/is a spectacular read.

Hi Great literary channel and on these recommendations I have ordered two of these books really looking forward to delving into these Thank you

Enjoyed this. Noticed the 'Personalities' volume on Lear is out of print. Unavailable on Amazon. Couldn't even find on eBay!

Enjoyed this, Benjamin. Fyi, Harold Bloom's top 5 works of literary criticism: 'The Greeks and the Irrational' by E.R. Dodds 'European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages' by Ernst Robert Curtius 'The Mirror and the Lamp' by M.H. Abrams 'The Rhetoric of Religion' by Kenneth Burke 'Colors of the Mind' by Angus Fletcher

Invention of the Human was my introduction to Bloom, and it absolutely changed my life! Although we don't agree on everything (I mourned his death partly because it was the loss of a great man, but also partly because now I will never be able to meet him and tell him why he was wrong about Falstaff and Coriolanus), he opens up the plays with such love and brilliant insight, and I was moved to tears many times as I read the book. I read Anatomy of Influence earlier this year on a whim because I saw it on the shelves of my local library. He lost me completely for large chunks of the book, but every time I considered skipping bits, he would hit me right between the eyes with an absolutely genius statement on literature, philosophy, or life in general, and I would have to keep reading. 🤣Thanks for this video! I'm excited to Add How to Read and Why and The Bright Book of Life to my reading list!

You’ve encouraged me to tackle Lear!

Although belated. Thank you for the resources. Keep up the good work.

It was a great pleasure to discover your channel, i just started don quixote . Keep up the good work 🙏

Great video. Just reading Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, has a pretty interesting analysis.

I'm a big fan of Bloom and have been for many years. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human was my introduction - I've worn through two copies because I love rereading it. One you didn't mention was Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. His favorite authors continue to pop up but he gives additional thoughts on a work that he hadn't previously covered. At first I struggled with some of his methods: always compare an author with eight others from a different time and genre but don't really explain their similarities or differences; and the fact that he didn't employ an editor in many of his works. But once one recognizes his genius and scope it's easy to overlook these: just sit back and enjoy!

Each one of your videos has really inspired me. Thanks again Benjamin. But at some point I’m going to have to start reading faster 😳

The literary critic, M.H. Abrams is a worthy companion to Harold Bloom. I recommend Natural Supernaturalism Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature.

Two of my favourite Harold’s passed away. Harold Bloom & Harold Budd. How To Read and Why is mandatory reading.

Just what I was looking for. Thank You.

Well done! Agree with your choices. Read the 1st 2 various times. Luck.

I will take a look at American Canon. I wonder if Thomas Wolfe was included--he's sort of a litmus test of mine. Many do not include him do to revisionist trends.

No mention of 'Agon'? Well, I can see why, it being a culmination of 'Anxiety of Influence' & 'Map of Misreading' Expanding on those works, he offers a Theory of Revisionism, which he views as a contest of opposing artistic and moral drives (that he applies to various authors). Agon, of course, is derived from 'agony' and 'Agonistes'

Thank you so much for book recommendations on scripture. May God bless this channel to reach out more people. 🎉❤

Very interesting that I ran across this clip. I attended some of his lectures on Blake Romantic poets.

I read a little of - "The Visionary Company". It is a poem by poem analysis of some major Romantic poems. I found each entry of the individual poems not overwhelmingly meticulous. I liked the introduction. In the introduction he states that the Metaphysical poets are more of a Catholic bent, and other authors that lead up to Woolf and Lawrence were more of a Protestant mind.

Could you make the list available? Thanks ❤️

That the first time I have heard of him bloom will have a look in the book shop for him

Can you please do more bookstore vlogs ? Please

A book of Bloom's that I'm interested in is his sequel to the 1905 novel A Voyage To Arcturus, The Flight To lucifer. TEH original novel by David Lyndsey is an odd fantasy novel. C.S. lewis held it up as an influence but he said he didn't agree with the theology.

Should I begin reading Bloom by The Western Canon or by Whow to Read and Why? They both seem to be good entry points.

I'm a lifelong Bloom addict, who re-anchored me to Shakespeare for lifetime reading and re-reading. His Western Canon is central. Btw, Bloom is such a trove that even comments like his reference to Harold C. Goddard's Shakespeare criticism have opened an amazing new critic to me. (If you haven't read Goddard, please go check out his essay on Hamlet!)

A Fabulous Survey of Harold Bloom!

I said I was coming to appreciate H. Bloom. I think that was tepid of me. I find his work increasingly exciting, which is possibly the beginning of love. ( He does remind me that I'm more than an ideology.) I'm fortunate that your channel happened upon me.

Love this episode

excellent narration👍

Known as "The man who has read everything ".

I've known about Bloom, and without getting into the debates or even diving deep, I wanted to read his recommendations and his views. So I started two books- Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Got a jolt of surprise seeing you mention them in your video. And I have to admit, I find children's stories very soothing and let my mind wander. (The stories we heard as kids always had a moral ending.)

Ben I have and have read through Bloom's Shakespeare: Invention of the Human and How to Read and Why. I have also listened to Bloom speak on youtube (before death of course). I know I should appreciate his work more, but I find it inaccessible at times, somewhat confusing (when he compares, for instance, another work of Shakespeare when discussing a different work)., and a bit boring. I am a voracious reader so I wonder if you could help me to learn to appreciate him more?

Fantastic, thank you!

I love Ben's blue-grey eyes.

I’m quite surprised you left off Genius. What makes it unique in his writings is his inclusion of not only literary figures but also philosophical and religious writers. It’s therefore the most comprehensive of his overviews. We get to see his insights about and appreciation of figures like Kierkegaard, Paul, and Shikibu. It’s certainly better and more instructive than The Book of J. (J, of course, is one of the authors discussed in Genius.)

Thanks again!

Great man 👍🏼

This is excellent!!

Where is the visionary company? This was one of blooms early volumes that showed his deep understanding and appreciation of the romantic poets. It’s still one of the great introductions to that crucial period of English literature. Really deserved a mention, I think.

I loved “Genius”. Great sweeping content

I want to get his anthologies! And How to Read and Why. But I have way too many unread books to go through so it would be impractical to buy them to just sit on my shelf. 😭

One critique of Bloom-- he leaves out an index in some books; that's maddening when you want to search for subject references. [Ruffle cut pages--never heard the term--thanks!]

Charles Bukowski was my favorite writer. Poems , short stories, here are 2 immortal stories from his “erections...” book: “The most beautiful woman in town” “ the blanket” ( greatest short story of all time) Al

Happily Reading, thank you.

What a coincidence that we both have our copies of “How to Read and Why” not readily available - I don’t know where your copy is, but you said it was somewhere in storage, whereas mine is also in storage because of a huge downsizing I had to make after I sold my house and boxed up my books and can only access them by digging into those boxes in my tool shed! (Readers please don’t stone me! lol). Now to my point: many of the Bloom books you have just mentioned I probably have 75% of them, but it was this little how to read and why that struck me very hard one day when I read the line where Bloom says, (and I’m afraid I am going to have to paraphrase here because I can’t go into my tool shed at this time of night and recoup the book to quote him exactly) but he says something to the effect of “Why do we read? We read because in our lives we meet and know very few people intimately, and those people are very worth knowing”. I think he was right on target. Subsequent to my reading of that little line I saw Dr. Bloom on Book Notes (Charles Lamb’s show) one evening and at one point in the interview Bloom said if you’re going to buy this book, buy it for this reason. You could’ve knocked me over with a feather as I had only recently read that to my husband and told him that it was worth the $26.95 that I spent on the book just to read that line. I was so impressed with myself that I actually had the same thought as Dr. Bloom. My husband tells me that I was unbearable to live with for a few days as I was emoting around the room saying, “I think like Bloom, I think like Bloom! L O L. Bloom was and is a lighthouse to me and I regret I did not drive the 1500 miles to just stand outside his classroom to hear him lecture just once. I would like to have shaken the man’s hand.

Thank you very much ❤

great review

The only one I don't have is Till I end My Song. I love Bloom; but he is an author who gives but also takes away.

Maps of Misreading is the best nonfiction book I've ever read

If I were a billionaire, I’d set up Harold Bloom memorial libraries, and maybe even some Harold Bloom Universities, in which students would study nothing but the books he most admired and recommended. Every literature lover is going to have to fight to save the canon. The woke mob want it replaced - and they are serious about this. I even saw a book in Waterstones called ‘How to De-Colonise Your Bookshelves’!!! Thank god for Bloom.

never heard of him, but thanks to you I might check out one of his books, "The bright book of life" in our local bookstore and bury myself in it!🤗

Bloom taught me to read aloud, particularly poetry.

My love-at-first-sight encounter with Bloom is Cabbala and Criticism. Originality

I am 69 years old and I miss Bloom. He was someone I turned to for answers of a literary nature. He was a critic who fairly rated works based on their literary merit and explained why he held the opinion he did. This caused no end of vexation for the PC crowd who have infiltrated the universities today. His stature protected him from being fired but now that he has gone people within literary circles have decided to expand the so-called Western Canon to reflect the diversity we have in our societies without much attention to the merit of the works they wish to include. Bloom never bowed to the waves of popular culture so when asked by Charlie Rose what he thought of the frenzy that was provoked by people lining up to buy Harry Potter for their children, Bloom said he had read it and thought it was slop.

The Visionary Company!

Figures of Capable Imagination has a number of good essays on English and American authors of the 19th and 20th centuries

Thanks for the list. Bloom has always seemed too full of references that are beyond me. I have not read “How to Read…” maybe that’s a good one to pick up.

I viewed one of his interviews on C-SPAN from around 20 years ago. He was not a fan of annotation and marginalia at all. He tried, I am not certain how successfully, to have his students memorize what was being studied. He believed "possession by memory " to be a powerful adversary as we are "influenced by what we remember."

Yes!

Спасибо из Украины . I was looking for information about Harold Bloom and have found your chanel.Thank you very much.

Great vid

Bloom was a genius

I love Harold Bloom. He’s beautiful.

Bloom's Poetry Anthology should be required reading in every school.

Permit me to recommend Bloom's Wallace Stevens The Poems of our Climate

I would also include Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. As well as a book, entitled, Genius.

'The Art of Reading Poetry' was pretty good.