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Author:

Bloom, Harold, author.

Title:

Possessed by memory : the inward light of criticism / Harold Bloom.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xx, 508 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Bloom, Harold--Books and reading.
Literature--History and criticism.
Canon (Literature)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Part 1: A voice he heard before the world was made -- Part 2: Self-otherseeing and the Shakespearean sublime -- Part 3: In the elegy season: John Milton, the visionary company, and Victorian poetry -- Part 4: The imperfect is our paradise: Walt Whitman 20th century American poetry.

Summary:

"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-- texts he has had by heart since childhood"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0525520880
9780525520887

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1082293273

LCCN:

2018037649

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)