Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism

by Harold Bloom

Book Overview

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.

Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but Bloom, interested only in the influence of the mind upon itself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525520880
• ISBN13: 9780525520887
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"