The Daemon Knows : Literary Greatness and the American Sublime - Prof. Harold Bloom

The Daemon Knows

Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

By: Prof. Harold Bloom

Hardcover | 21 July 2015

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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 Faulkner with Hart Crane, Bloom places these writers' works in conversation with one another, exploring their relationship to the 'daemon'-the spark of genius or Orphic muse-in their creation, and helping us understand their writing with new immediacy and relevance. It is above all the intensity of their preoccupation with the sublime, Bloom suggests, that distinguishes these American writers from their European predecessors. A product of five years of writing and a lifetime of reading and scholarship, The Daemon Knows may be Bloom's most masterly book yet.
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`Probably the most celebrated literary critic in the United States ' Frank Kermode, The Guardian `A veritable feast for the general reader ' John Ashbery `A colossus among critics ' The New York Times Magazine `[Bloom] is, by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary presences of the last half-century. ' The New York Times Book Review `Bloom thinks in the sweep of millennia, of intellectual patterns that unfold over centuries, of a vast and intricate labyrinth of interconnections between artists from Plato to Pater. ' The Washington Post

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