" As Bloom writes movingly: "One of my concerns throughout Possessed by Memory is with the beloved dead. Most of my good friends in my generation have departed. Their voices are still in my ears. I find that they are woven into what I read.
Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Eugene Ioneso's dramas still work in theaters thanks to what some critics call his primordial sense of the foundations of drama. This text examines some of his work, including The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, The Chair, and Rhinoceros
From Lionel Trilling to Irving Kristol, from Philip Rahv to Norman Podhoretz, this book offers a comprehensive look at New York intellectual life over the past half-century.
In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted ...
All this is set in the context of his gradual self-awareness of what scholarship implies and how his personal displacements strengthened his calling to mediate between European and American literary cultures.
" This groundbreaking book tells the story of de Vere's action-packed life-as Renaissance man, spendthrift, courtier, wit, student, scoundrel, patron, military adventurer, and, above all, prolific ghostwriter-finding in it the background ...
Harold Bloom. Acknowledgments. “Hemingway: Gauge of Morale” from The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies In The ... in author's name. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. “Hemingway's Extraordinary Actuality” by John ...