Daemon Knows Oxford University Press (370108008)

Было бы 'не indispensable critic' в The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom был для деканцев быть sharing s readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. В The Daemon Knows, беруться за свою позицию к писателям своей национальной литературы в книге, що є одним з його most incisive and profoundly personal to data. Пиринг Walt Whitman with Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne with Henry James, Mark Twain with Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens with T. S. Eliot, и William Faulkner with Hart Crane, Bloom places the writers' works in conversation with one ather, exploring their relationship to the 'daemon'-spark of genius or Orphic muse-in their creation, and helping us understand their writing with new inmediacy and Це загвоздка всех усилий своей preoccupation with sublime, Bloom suggests, що distinguishes the American writers from the European predecessors. Product of 5 years writing and lifetime of reading and scholarship, The Daemon Knows может быть Bloom's most masterly book yet.