Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism

✍ Scribed by Bloom, Harold

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood"--;Part 1. A voice she heard before the world was made -- Part 2. Self-otherseeing and the Shakespearean sublime -- Part 3. In the elegy season : John Milton, the visionary company, and Victorian poetry -- Part 4. The imperfect is our paradise : Walt Whitman and twentieth-century American poetry.

✦ Table of Contents

Part 1. A voice she heard before the world was made --
Part 2. Self-otherseeing and the Shakespearean sublime --
Part 3. In the elegy season : John Milton, the visionary company, and Victorian poetry --
Part 4. The imperfect is our paradise : Walt Whitman and twentieth-century American poetry.

✦ Subjects

Authors and readers;Books and reading;Canon (Literature);Critics--Books and reading;Critics--Books and reading--United States;Kanon;Literatur;Literature;Literature--Appreciation;Literature--History and criticism;Literaturkritik;Criticism, interpretation, etc.;Biography;Literary criticism;Bloom, Harold -- Books and reading;Literature -- History and criticism;Literature -- Appreciation;Critics -- Books and reading -- United States -- Biography;Bloom, Harold;Critics -- Books and reading;United Stat