The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life / Harold Bloom.
Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300179903
- ISBN: 0300179901
- ISBN: 1283279886
- ISBN: 9781283279888
- ISBN: 9786613279880
- ISBN: 6613279889
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 357 pages)
- Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Bloom, Harold. Bloom, Harold. Bloom, Harold. Literature > Appreciation. Literature > Philosophy. Authors and readers. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |