The daemon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime

Summary: "Harold Bloom, named "The indispensible critic" by the New York Review of Books, 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. A book by our greatest literary critic writing on these great American writers will be a must-read for anyone interested in American literature"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780812997835
ISBN: 0812997824
ISBN: 9780812997828
Physical Description: xvi, 524 pages ; 24 cm
print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.