TY - BOOK AU - Bloom,Harold TI - Possessed by memory: the inward light of criticism SN - 9780525520887 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Bloom, Harold KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Appreciation KW - Authors and readers KW - Canon (Literature) KW - Critics KW - Books and reading KW - United States KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Part 1: A voice she heard before the world was made -- Part 2: Self-otherseeing and the Shakespearean sublime -- Part 3: In the elegy season: John Milton, the visionary company, and Victorian poetry -- Part 4: The imperfect is our paradise: Walt Whitman and 20th century American poetry N2 - "In 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"-- ER -