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The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life

Bloom, Harold, 1930-2011
Books
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.
Collation:
x, 357 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
9780300167603
Dewey class:
801.3
Language:
English
BRN:
187320
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