The daemon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]
Physical 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"--