The daemon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime / Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Harold, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Demon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime

Place of Publication:

New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]

Summary:

"Harold Bloom ... 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-500) and index.

ISBN:

9780812997828

0812997824

OCLC:

894816439