POSSESSED BY MEMORY / THE INWARD LIGHT OF CRITICISM

Here is the daringly original literary critics most personal book: a four-part spiritual autobiography in the form of brief, lumino us readings of poetry, drama, and prosemuch of which he has known by heart since childhood. As one of his own mentors, M. H. Abrams , has said, to read Blooms commentaries is like reading classic authors by flashes of lightning. Gone are the polemics/ here Bloo m argues elegiacally with nobody but himself. In A Voice she Heard Before the World Was Made, he offers startling meditations on f oundational con...[Llegir més]