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Book Title
Possessed by Memory : the Inward Light of Criticism
Publication Name
Possessed by Memory
Title
Possessed by Memory
Subtitle
The Inward Light of Criticism
Author
Harold Bloom
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9780525562474
ISBN
9780525562474
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Release Year
2020
Release Date
17/03/2020
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1.1in
Item Length
8in
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Poetry, Literary
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Number of Pages
544 Pages

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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. Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but Bloom, interested only in the influence of the mind upon itself when it absorbs the highest and most enduring imaginative literature. He offers more than eighty meditations on poems and prose that have haunted him since childhood and which he has possessed by memory: from the Psalms and Ecclesiastes to Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson; Spenser and Milton to Wordsworth and Keats; Whitman and Browning to Joyce and Proust; Tolstoy and Yeats to Delmore Schwartz and Amy Clampitt; Blake to Wallace Stevens--and so much more. And though he has written before about some of these authors, these exegeses, written in the winter of his life, are movingly informed by "the freshness of last things." As Bloom writes movingly: "One of my concerns throughout Possessed by Memory is with the beloved dead. Most of my good friends in my generation have departed. Their voices are still in my ears. I find that they are woven into what I read. I listen not only for their voices but also for the voice I heard before the world was made. My other concern is religious, in the widest sense. For me poetry and spirituality fuse as a single entity. All my long life I have sought to isolate poetic knowledge. This also involves a knowledge of God and gods. I see imaginative literature as a kind of theurgy in which the divine is summoned, maintained, and augmented."

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525562478
ISBN-13
9780525562474
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038778732

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Book Title
Possessed by Memory : the Inward Light of Criticism
Author
Harold Bloom
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Poetry, Literary
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
544 Pages

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
14 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn511.B525 2019
Reviews
"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
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-037649
Dewey Decimal
809
Dewey Edition
23

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