The Daemon Knows
Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
(Author) Harold Bloom
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Hardcover
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In The Daemon Knows, celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom turns his attention to the writers of his own national literary tradition, from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville to William Faulkner and Hart Crane. The distillation of a lifetime lived among the works explored in these pages, this book is also one of Bloom's most profoundly personal to date.
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
Number of pages:
None
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780198753599
Publish year:
2015
Publish date:
July 9, 2015
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was a renowned literary critic and scholar, best known for his work "The Anxiety of Influence" which explores the relationship between poets and their predecessors. His dense, allusive writing style and focus on the concept of literary influence revolutionized the study of literature.