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Author Bloom, Harold, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]

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 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  810.9 BLOOM    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.9 BLOOM    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  810.9 BLO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.92 B62    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  810.9 BLOOM    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  810.9 B62D    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  810.9 BLOOM    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  810.9 BLO    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  810.9 BL    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-500) and index.
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Added Title Demon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime
ISBN 9780812997828 hbk. : acid-free paper
0812997824 hbk. : acid-free paper
9780812997835 (ebook)
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