{"product_id":"the-daemon-knows-literary-greatness-and-the-american-sublime","title":"The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWS  Hailed as the indispensable critic by The New York Review of Books  Harold BloomNew York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale Universityhas for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. Now he turns at long last to his beloved writers of our national literature in an expansive and mesmerizing book that is one of his most incisive and profoundly personal to date. A product of five years of writing and a lifetime of reading and scholarship  The Daemon Knows may be Blooms most masterly book yet.  Pairing Walt Whitman with Herman Melville  Ralph Waldo Emerson with Emily Dickinson  Nathaniel Hawthorne with Henry James  Mark Twain with Robert Frost  Wallace Stevens with T. S. Eliot  and William Faulkner with Hart Crane  Bloom places these writers works in conversation with one another  exploring their relationship to the daemonthe spark of genius or Orphic musein their creation and helping us understand their writing with new immediacy and relevance. It is the intensity of their preoccupation with the sublime  Bloom proposes  that distinguishes these American writers from their European predecessors.  As he reflects on a lifetime lived among the works explored in this book  Bloom has himself  in this magnificent achievement  created a work touched by the daemon.  Praise for The Daemon Knows  Enrapturing . . . radiant . . . intoxicating . . . Harold Bloom  who bestrides our literary world like a willfully idiosyncratic colossus  belongs to the party of rapture.Cynthia Ozick  The New York Times Book Review  The capstone to a lifetime of thinking  writing and teaching . . . The primary strength of The Daemon Knows is the brilliance and penetration of the connections Bloom makes among the great writers of the past  the shrewd sketching of intellectual feuds or oppositions that he calls agons. . . . Blooms books are like a splendid map of literature  a majestic aerial view that clarifies what we cannot see from the ground.The Washington Post  Audacious . . . The Yale literary scholar has added another remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work.The Huffington Post  The sublime The Daemon Knows is a veritable feast for the general reader (me) as well as the advanced (I assume) one.John Ashbery  Mesmerizing.New York Journal of Books  Bloom is a formidable critic  an extravagant intellect.Chicago Tribune  As always  Bloom conveys the intimate  urgent  compelling sense of why it matters that we read these canonical authors.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)  Few people write criticism as nakedly confident as Blooms any more.The Guardian (U.K.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946153570357,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812997824","price":27.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812997828.jpg?v=1769926441","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-daemon-knows-literary-greatness-and-the-american-sublime","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}