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Bloom, Harold

 
9780300283839: The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300283830 ISBN 13: 9780300283839
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

A selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired

Bringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an intimate view of one of the most famous literary critics of the last century. In correspondence with Alvin Feinman, Northrop Frye, A. R. Ammons, John Hollander, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Henri Cole, and Ursula K. Le Guin, we see Bloom developing his groundbreaking theory of poetic influence, transforming himself into a public intellectual, and reckoning with the meaning of his own legacy.

While Bloom's public persona was oracular, sure, and often combative, his letters are inquiring and provisional, revealing his overarching obsession with good writing. The presence of love, as the letters show, was always vital to how Bloom worked as a reader. The writers and characters he loved were distant gods as well as his best friends, and what happened in books happened to him. Filled with delightful anecdotes and poignant observations, these letters--many of them published here for the first time--offer a new window onto twentieth-century letters and Bloom's long and illustrious career.

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Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. His books include The Anatomy of Influence, The Shadow of a Great Rock, Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles, and Poetry and Repression. Heather Cass White is an English professor at the University of Alabama. She has edited three volumes of Marianne Moore's poetry and is the author of Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300283830
ISBN 13 
9780300283839
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
Herausgeber
White Heather Cass
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