The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life / Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Harold.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Appreciation.

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

Authors and readers.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Bloom, Harold.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-27988-6

9786613279880

0-300-17990-1

OCLC:

923596593