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The Daemon Knows - Literary Greatness and the American Sublime (Hardcover)
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The Daemon Knows - Literary Greatness and the American Sublime (Hardcover)
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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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