{"product_id":"daemon-knows-book-harold-bloom-9780812997828","title":"The Daemon Knows","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWS \u003cbr\u003eHailed as the indispensable critic by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University has 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 Bloom s most masterly book yet. \u003cbr\u003e 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 daemon the spark of genius or Orphic muse in 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e Praise forThe Daemon Knows\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e 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. . . . Bloom s books are like a splendid map of literature, a majestic aerial view that clarifies what we cannot see from the ground. The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Audacious . . . The Yale literary scholar has added another remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work. The Huffington Post\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The sublime The Daemon Knows is a veritable feast for the general reader (me) as well as the advanced (I assume) one. John Ashbery\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mesmerizing.  New York Journal of Books\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bloom is a formidable critic, an extravagant intellect.  Chicago Tribune \u003cbr\u003e As always, Bloom conveys the intimate, urgent, compelling sense of why it matters that we read these canonical authors. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \u003cbr\u003e Few people write criticism as nakedly confident as Bloom s any more. The Guardian (U.K.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49507131392273,"sku":"CIN0812997824G","price":6.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49661542138129,"sku":"GOR013670487","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49664649724177,"sku":"GOR007770124","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50913730953489,"sku":"CIN0812997824VG","price":5.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812997824.jpg?v=1751043320","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/daemon-knows-book-harold-bloom-9780812997828","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}