| Description |
1 online resource (x, 357 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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Bloom, Harold
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Bloom, Harold |
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Bloom, Harold. |
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Bloom, Harold. |
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Literature -- Appreciation
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Authors and readers.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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17.82 literary criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Authors and readers
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature -- Appreciation
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Literatuurkritiek.
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Beïnvloeding.
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Bellettrie.
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Literature -- Appreciation.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Authors and readers.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Poetry.
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Litteraturanalys.
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Litteraturestetik.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Authors.
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Reading.
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Literature -- Influence.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010042456 |
| ISBN |
9780300179903 |
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0300179901 |
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1283279886 |
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9781283279888 |
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9786613279880 |
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6613279889 |
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