The anatomy of influence literature as a way of life Bloom, Harold. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. ctu New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Press c2011 2011 monographic eng
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x, 357 p. Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. 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. Harold Bloom. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Bloom, Harold Literature Appreciation Literature Philosophy Authors and readers Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) PN81 .B5449 2011eb 801/.3 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10497662 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10497662 CaPaEBR 101014 ebr10497662