Possessed by memory : the inward light of criticism /
Harold Bloom.
- First edition.
- xx, 508 pages ; 25 cm
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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.
"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"--
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