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The Daemon Knows

The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Harold Bloom

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April 2016, no. 380
James Ley reviews 'The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime' by Harold Bloom

As he reminds his readers on numerous occasions in The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, Harold Bloom is now well into his eighties. He has spent a lifetime teaching and writing about literature at Yale University, where he has long claimed to constitute a 'department of one'. The claim is part lament, part affectation, part boast. ...