The anatomy of influence
Subtitle: literature as a way of life
By: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780300167603
Subjects: Appreciation; Philosophy; Authors and readers; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature
Description: Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The point of view for my work as a critic. Literary love ; Sublime strangeness ; The influence of a mind on itself; title: 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; title: Dante; title: Shakespeare; title: Milton ; Dr. Johnson and critical influence; title: 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; title: 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.