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, The Daemon Knows may be Bloom's most masterly book
yet.§§Pairing Walt Whitman with Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo
Emerson with Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne with Henry James,
Mark Twain...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER§§Hailed as "the indispensable critic" by
The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom- New York Times
bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale
University-has for decades been sharing with readers and students
his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining
why it matters. Now he turns at long last to his beloved writers of
our national literature in an expansive and mesmerizing book that
is one of his most incisive and profoundly personal to date. A
product of five years of writing and a lifetime of reading and
scholarship, The Daemon Knows may be Bloom's most masterly book
yet.§§Pairing Walt Whitman with Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo
Emerson with Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne with Henry James,
Mark Twain with Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens with T. S. Eliot, and
William Faulkner with Hart Crane, Bloom places these writers' works
in conversation with one another, exploring their relationship to
the "daemon"-the spark of genius or Orphic muse-in their creation
and helping us understand their writing with new immediacy and
relevance. It is the intensity of their preoccupation with the
sublime, Bloom proposes, that distinguishes these American writers
from their European predecessors.§§As he reflects on a lifetime
lived among the works explored in this book, Bloom has himself, in
this magnificent achievement, created a work touched by the
daemon.§§Praise for The Daemon Knows§§"Enrapturing . . . radiant .
. . intoxicating . . . Harold Bloom, who bestrides our literary
world like a willfully idiosyncratic colossus, belongs to the party
of rapture." -Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review §§"The
capstone to a lifetime of thinking, writing and teaching . . . The
primary strength of The Daemon Knows is the brilliance and
penetration of the connections Bloom makes among the great writers
of the past, the shrewd sketching of intellectual feuds or
oppositions that he calls agons. . . . Bloom's books are like a
splendid map of literature, a majestic aerial view that clarifies
what we cannot see from the ground." - The Washington
Post§§"Audacious . . . The Yale literary scholar has added another
remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work." - The
Huffington Post §§"The sublime The Daemon Knows is a veritable
feast for the general reader (me) as well as the advanced (I
assume) one." -John Ashbery§§"Few people write criticism as nakedly
confident as Bloom's any more." - The Guardian (U.K.)§§"As always,
Bloom conveys the intimate, urgent, compelling sense of why it
matters that we read these canonical authors." - Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)§§From the Hardcover edition.
