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The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
Prof. Harold Bloom
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Description for The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
Hardcover. Celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom turns his attention to the writers of his own national literary tradition, from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville to William Faulkner and Hart Crane. The distillation of a lifetime of criticism, it is one of Bloom's most profoundly personal books to date. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 159 x 47. Weight in Grams: 818.
Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns his attention to the writers of his own national literature in a book that is one of his most incisive and profoundly personal to date. Pairing Walt Whitman with Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne with Henry James, Mark Twain with Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens with T. S. Eliot, and William ... Read more
Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns his attention to the writers of his own national literature in a book that is one of his most incisive and profoundly personal to date. Pairing Walt Whitman with Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne with Henry James, Mark Twain with Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens with T. S. Eliot, and William ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198753599
SKU
V9780198753599
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About Prof. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, and The American Religion. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and ... Read more
Reviews for The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
a wonderful introduction from one of the most renowned critics of his generation
A Hermit's Progress
Bloom is... the last of the Titans. Literary Review, John Sutherland the Yale literary scholar has added another remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work
Huffington Post
... the death of literature has been deferred once more.
Daily ... Read more
A Hermit's Progress
Bloom is... the last of the Titans. Literary Review, John Sutherland the Yale literary scholar has added another remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work
Huffington Post
... the death of literature has been deferred once more.
Daily ... Read more