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Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it. —The Philadelphia Inquirer

This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happens once we 'shuffle off this mortal coil.' —The Christian Science Monitor

An elegiac meditation on a life lived through books. —O, The Oprah Magazine

The great critic revisits the literature that has meant most to him. —The New York Times Book Review

Here is the daringly original literary critic's most personal book: a four-part spiritual autobiography in the form of brief, luminous readings of poetry, drama, and prose—much of which he has known by heart since childhood. As one of his own mentors, M. H. Abrams, has said, to read Bloom's commentaries is like reading classic authors by flashes of lightning. Gone are the polemics; here Bloom argue

Possessed by Memory The Inward Light of Criticism

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    Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 3/17/2020 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780525562474, 978-0525562474
    ISBN10: 0525562478

    Number of Pages: 544

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it. —The Philadelphia Inquirer

    This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happens once we 'shuffle off this mortal coil.' —The Christian Science Monitor

    An elegiac meditation on a life lived through books. —O, The Oprah Magazine

    The great critic revisits the literature that has meant most to him. —The New York Times Book Review

    Here is the daringly original literary critic's most personal book: a four-part spiritual autobiography in the form of brief, luminous readings of poetry, drama, and prose—much of which he has known by heart since childhood. As one of his own mentors, M. H. Abrams, has said, to read Bloom's commentaries is like reading classic authors by flashes of lightning. Gone are the polemics; here Bloom argue

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