The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life / Harold Bloom.

The point of view for my work as a critic
Literary love
Sublime strangeness
The influence of a mind on itself


Shakespeare, the founder
Shakespeare's people
The rival poet: King Lear
Shakespeare's ellipsis: The Tempest
Possession in many modes: the sonnets
Hamlet and the art of knowing
Milton's Hamlet
Joyce...Dante...Shakespeare...Milton
Dr. Johnson and critical influence


The skeptical sublime
Anxieties of Epicurean influence: Dryden, Pater, Milton, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Swinburne, Stevens
Leopardi's Lucretian swerve
Shelley's heirs: Browning and Yeats
Whose condition of fire? Merrill and Yeats


Whitman and the death of Europe in the evening land
Emerson and a poetry yet to be written
Whitman's tally
Death and the poet: Whitmanian ebbings
Notes toward a supreme fiction of the romantic self
Near the quick: Lawrence and Whitman
Hand of fire: Hart Crane's magnificence
Whitman's prodigals: Ashbery, Ammons, Merwin, Strand, Charles Wright.