Possessed by Memory

“Describe is what he does, perhaps more brilliantly than anyone else alive.”
–Esquire

“The great critic revisits the literature that has meant most to him. “
–The New York Times

“Our era’s Samuel Johnson…Possessed by Memory really is a kind of valediction… Bloom has loved literature deeply—and that love is, even in the face of death, a life-giving force.”
—Commonweal Magazine

“These essays reveal a deeply personal attachment and fresh perspective. An eloquent and erudite rereading of the author’s beloved works.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A rich lifetime of readership and scholarship can be found within the covers of this equally rich book.”
—Publishers Weekly

Harold Bloom

Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University Former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard

Harold Bloom authored over forty books, including:

• The Anxiety of Influence
• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
• The Western Canon
• The American Religion
• The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

He was a:

• MacArthur Fellow
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Bloom received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including:

• American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism
• Catalonia International Prize
• Mexico’s Alfonso Reyes International Prize

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