The daemon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime /
"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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Spiegel & Grau,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-500) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812997828 0812997824 |