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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloom, Harold (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Walt Whitman and Herman Melville
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James
  • Mark Twain and Robert Frost
  • Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot
  • William Faulkner and Hart Crane.