Bloom - The daemon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
Hailed as the indispensable critic by The New York Review of Books, Harold BloomNew York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale Universityhas for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. Now he turns at long last to his beloved writers of our national literature in an expansive and mesmerizing book that is one of his most incisive and profoundly personal to date. A product of five years of writing and a lifetime of reading and scholarship, The Daemon Knows may be Blooms most masterly book yet.
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 daemonthe spark of genius or Orphic musein their creation and helping us understand their writing with new immediacy and relevance. It is the intensity of their preoccupation with the sublime, Bloom proposes, that distinguishes these American writers from their European predecessors.
As he reflects on a lifetime lived among the works explored in this book, Bloom has himself, in this magnificent achievement, created a work touched by the daemon.
Praise for The Daemon Knows
Enrapturing . . . radiant . . . intoxicating . . . Harold Bloom, who bestrides our literary world like a willfully idiosyncratic colossus, belongs to the party of rapture.Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review
The capstone to a lifetime of thinking, writing and teaching . . . The primary strength of The Daemon Knows is the brilliance and penetration of the connections Bloom makes among the great writers of the past, the shrewd sketching of intellectual feuds or oppositions that he calls agons. . . . Blooms books are like a splendid map of literature, a majestic aerial view that clarifies what we cannot see from the ground.The Washington Post
Audacious . . . The Yale literary scholar has added another remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work.The Huffington Post
The sublime The Daemon Knows is a veritable feast for the general reader (me) as well as the advanced (I assume) one.John Ashbery
Mesmerizing.New York Journal of Books
Bloom is a formidable critic, an extravagant intellect.Chicago Tribune
As always, Bloom conveys the intimate, urgent, compelling sense of why it matters that we read these canonical authors.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Few people write criticism as nakedly confident as Blooms any more.The Guardian (U.K.)
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