DAEMON KNOWS, THE

Hailed as "the indispensable critic" by "The New York Review of Books, "Harold B
loom--"New York Times" bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities a
t Yale University--has for decades been sharing with readers and students his ge
nius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. Now
he turns at long last to his beloved writers of our national literature in an e
xpansive and mesmerizing book that is one of his most incisive and profoundly pe
rsonal to date. A product of five years of writing and a lifetime of reading and
scholarship, "The Daemon Knows" may be Bloom's most masterly book yet.