The daemon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime
Title:
The daemon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime
Author:
Bloom, Harold, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]
Physical Description:
xvi, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
"Harold Bloom ... returns with a definitive yet personal book on twelve American writers upon whose work he believes the American canon is built. While his references to American writers are wide-ranging, he focuses on twelve: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Hart Crane-- those writers whose works make up what he calls the American sublime"--
Language:
English
Contents:
Walt Whitman and Herman Melville -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James -- Mark Twain and Robert Frost -- Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot -- William Faulkner and Hart Crane.
ISBN:
9780812997828
9780812987461
Format :
Book
