| Description |
x, 357 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-340) and index. |
| Contents |
The point of view for my work as a critic -- Literary love -- Sublime strangeness -- The influence of a mind on itself -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Appreciation.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Authors and readers.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
9780300167603 hardcover alkaline paper $32.50 |
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0300167601 hardcover alkaline paper |
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