Possessed by Memory
The Inward Light of Criticism
"Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
"This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happens once we 'shuffle off this mortal coil.'" —The Christian Science Monitor
"An elegiac meditation on a life lived through books." —O, The Oprah Magazine
"The great critic revisits the literature that has meant most to him." —The New York Times Book Review
Here is the daringly original literary critic's most personal book: a four-part spiritual autobiography in the form of brief, luminous readings of poetry, drama, and prose—much of which he has known by heart since childhood. As one of his own mentors, M. H. Abrams, has…
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March 17, 2020HAROLD BLOOM lived in New Haven and was a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Before that, he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include Possessed by Memory, 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 was 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 lived in New Haven until his death on October 14, 2019, at…
The Bright Book of Life
Harold Bloom
Possessed by Memory
Harold Bloom
The Daemon Knows
Harold Bloom
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Living with Shakespeare
Edited by Susannah Carson; Foreword by Harold Bloom
The Fourth Dimension of a Poem
M H Abrams;Harold Bloom
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Edited by Susannah Carson
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
Harold Bloom
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Harold Bloom
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman; Introduction by Harold Bloom
Julius Caesar
Harold Bloom
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited
Harold BloomComplete Poems Of Hart Crane The Centennial Edition
Hart Crane;Harold Bloom;Mark Simon