Possessed Memory Light Criticism by Bloom Harold, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket with only minor reading wear; DJ has edge-wear at corners, small tear at bottom outer corner of back cover; book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 2019. Knopf. 8vo. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine DJ. New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. first edition". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S35.00) DUST JACKET ,CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT; GOLD SPINE TITLES BLUE HARD COVERS.white endpapers.DJ SHOWS YELLOW TITLES ON DARK BLUE PANEL, DARK RED BORDER.DJ INNER FLAP HAS 3X3" AUTHOR PORTRAIT by GREGORY BOTTS & short biog. ; 544 pages; arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood.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. I listen not only for their voices but also for the voice I heard before the world was made.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 508 pages. HIghlighting in the section, a Coda about Proust's In Search of Lost Time (pages 471 to 490.) . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Very good hardcover in like jacket. Very minor edgewear to jacket. Very minor bump to head of spine. FFEP inscribed by previous owner, author John Metcalf. Very small tear to lower edge of FFEP. Overall, a tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Knopf, New York, 2019. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket, but for red remainder dot lower text block. A clean tight unread copy. Original publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($35.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. INDISPENSIBLE: PERSONAL: LASTING: DARINGLY ORIGINAL: LUCID: LUMINOUS: CONTROVERSIAL: INWARD: ELEGIAC: MEDITATIVE: MOVING: YES, FILLED WITH LOVE, SPIRITUAL: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. April 2019) First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected color jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, NEW library-durable blue woven paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW hybrid sewn-perfect binding w/ tight signatures-sheets & crimson cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed in Janson w/ ELEGANT clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper. * 6.36" x 9.50" x 1.74", 0.94 kg, x+508 (528) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: In arguably his most personal & lasting book, America's most daringly original & controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors-- texts he has known by heart since childhood. Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to 90--Bloom argues elegiacally w/ nobody but Bloom, interested only in the influence of the mind upon itself when it absorbs the highest & most enduring imaginative literature. He offers more than 80 meditations on poems & prose that have haunted him since childhood & which he has possessed by memory: from the Psalms & Ecclesiastes to Shakespeare & Dr. Johnson; Spenser & Milton to Wordsworth & Keats; Whitman & Browning to Joyce & Proust; Tolstoy & Yeats to Delmore Schwartz & Amy Clampitt; Blake to Wallace Stevens--& so much more. And though he has written before about some of these authors, these exegeses, written in the winter of his life, are movingly informed by "the freshness of last things." As Bloom writes movingly: "One of my concerns throughout 'Possessed by Memory' is w/ 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. I listen not only for their voices but also for the voice I heard before the world was made. My other concern is religious, in the widest sense. For me poetry & spirituality fuse as a single entity. All my long life I have sought to isolate poetic knowledge. This also involves a knowledge of God & gods. I see imaginative literature as a kind of theurgy in which the divine is summoned, maintained, & augmented." * ABOUT HAROLD BLOOM: HAROLD BLOOM was until his decease a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University & a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than 40 books include "The Anxiety of Influence", "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human", "The Western Canon", "The American Religion", and "The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime". He was a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, & the recipient of many awards & honorary degrees, including the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Gold Medal for Belles Lettres & Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, & Mexico's Alfonso Reyes International Prize. He lived in New Haven. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this splendid book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ shipment via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee & shipment to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted below-cost rates.