In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors that he has had by heart since childhood.
Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare- The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The American Religion, and The Daemon Knows- Literary Greatness and the American Sublime. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and Mexico's Alfonso Reyes International Prize. He lives in New Haven.
"Describe is what he does, perhaps more brilliantly than anyone
else alive."
--Esquire "The great critic revisits the literature that has meant
most to him. "
--The New York Times "Our era's Samuel Johnson...Possessed by
Memory really is a kind of valediction... Bloom has loved
literature deeply--and that love is, even in the face of death, a
life-giving force."
--Commonweal Magazine "These essays reveal a deeply personal
attachment and fresh perspective. An eloquent and erudite rereading
of the author's beloved works."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A rich lifetime of readership
and scholarship can be found within the covers of this equally rich
book."
--Publishers Weekly
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