The anatomy of influence literature as a way of life
Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
| Main Author: | Bloom, Harold. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- The point of view for my work as a critic. Literary love ; Sublime strangeness ; The influence of a mind on itself
- 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
- 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
- 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.