Ebook: Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism

"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"--;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 twentieth-century American poetry.