Possessed by Memory, The Inward Light of Criticism by Bloom, Harold -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Titles Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Author’s Note Preface Part One: A Voice She Heard Before the World Was Made

Thresholds to Voice: Augmenting a God in Ruins The Poetry of Kabbalah More Life: The Blessing Given by Literature Moses: The Sublime of Silence Judges 13–16: Samson Daughter of a Voice: The Song of Deborah David: “Thou Art the Man” The Hebrew Prophets Isaiah of Jerusalem: “Arise, Shine; For Thy Light Is Come” Psalms or Praises Job: Holding His Ground The Song of Songs: “Set Me as a Seal upon Thine Heart” Ruth: “Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go” Ecclesiastes: “And Desire Shall Fail”

Part Two: Self-Otherseeing and the Shakespearean Sublime

The Concept of Self-Otherseeing and the Arch-Jew Shylock The Bastard Faulconbridge The Falstaffiad: Glory and Darkening of Sir John Falstaff Hamlet’s Questioning of Shakespeare Iago and Othello: Point-Counterpoint Edgar and Edmund: Agonistic Dramatists The Fool and Cordelia: Love’s Martyrdom King Lear: Authority and Cosmological Disorder Macbeth: Triumph at Limning a Night-Piece

Part Three: In the Elegy Season: John Milton, the Visionary Company, and Victorian Poetry

Ben Jonson on Shakespeare and Andrew Marvell on Milton Paradise Lost: The Realm of Newness Comus: The Shadow of Shakespeare Dr. Samuel Johnson, Life of Milton William Collins, “Ode on the Poetical Character” Thomas Gray: The Poet as Outsider Wisdom and Unwisdom of the Body William Blake’s Milton William Wordsworth, “The Solitary Reaper” William Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To a Skylark” Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound Lord Byron, Don Juan John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” John Keats, “La Belle Dame sans Merci” John Keats, “To Autumn” Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest Book Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses” Alfred Tennyson, “Tithonus” Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King Alfred Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur” Robert Browning, “A Toccata of Galuppi’s” Robert Browning, Pauline The Condition of Fire at the Dark Tower Robert Browning, “Thamuris Marching” George Meredith, “A Ballad of Past Meridian” Algernon Charles Swinburne, “August” Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Hertha”

Part Four: The Imperfect Is Our Paradise: Walt Whitman and Twentieth-Century American Poetry

The Psalms and Walt Whitman Fletcher, Whitman, and The American Sublime The Freshness of Last Things: Wallace Stevens, “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon” Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man” Wallace Stevens, “Montrachet-le-Jardin” Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Luke Havergal” William Carlos Williams, “A Unison” Archie Randolph Ammons, Sphere Hart Crane, “Possessions” Hart Crane, “To Brooklyn Bridge” Conrad Aiken, “Tetélestai” Richard Eberhart, “If I Could Only Live at the Pitch That Is Near Madness” Weldon Kees, “Aspects of Robinson” May Swenson, “Big-Hipped Nature” Delmore Schwartz, “The First Night of Fall and Falling Rain” Alvin Feinman, “Pilgrim Heights” John Ashbery, “At North Farm” John Wheelwright, “Fish Food” James Merrill, The Book of Ephraim Jay Macpherson, “Ark Parting” Amy Clampitt, “A Hermit Thrush”

Coda: In Search of Lost Time A Note About the Author

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