| Description |
x, 357 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Praeludium -- pt. 1. The point of view for my work as a critic -- Literary love -- Sublime strangeness -- The influence of a mind on itself -- pt. 2. Shakespeare, the founder -- Shakespeare's people -- The rival poet : King Lear -- Shakespeare's ellipsis : The tempest -- Possession in many modes : the sonnets -- Hamlet and the art of knowing -- Milton's Hamlet -- Joyce . . . Dante . . . Shakespeare . . . Milton -- Dr. Johnson and critical influence -- pt. 3. The skeptical sublime -- Anxieties of Epicurean influence : Dryden, Pater, Milton, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Swinburne, Stevens -- Leopardi's Lucretian swerve -- Shelley's heirs : Browning and Yeats -- Whose condition of fire? Merrill and Yeats -- pt. 4. Whitman and the death of Europe in the evening land -- Emerson and a poetry yet to be written -- Whitman's tally -- Death and the poet : Whitmanian ebbings -- Notes toward a supreme fiction of the romantic self -- Near the quick : Lawrence and Whitman -- Hand of fire : Hart Crane's magnificence -- Whitman's prodigals : Ashbery, Ammons, Merwin, Strand, Charles Wright. |
| Summary |
Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Appreciation.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Authors and readers.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Bloom, Harold, 1930-2019.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Authors.
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Reading.
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Literature -- Influence.
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| ISBN |
9780300167603 (hc. : alk. paper) |
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0300167601 (hc. : alk. paper) |
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