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The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life
- Title
- The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life / Harold Bloom.
- Author
- Bloom, Harold.
- Publication
- New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- x, 357 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-790
- ISBN
- 9780300167603 (hc. : alk. paper)
- 0300167601 (hc. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010042456
- OCLC
- 670324843
- Author
- Bloom, Harold.
- Title
- The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life / Harold Bloom.
- Imprint
- New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-790