Title:
The daemon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime / Harold Bloom.
Author:
Bloom, Harold, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]
Call Number:
PS121 .B594 2015
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780812997828
Physical Description:
xvi, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject Term:
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.
Personal Author:
