Hailed as ''the indispensable critic'' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom delivers a definitive yet personal book on the American writers who created our national literature. Focusing on twelve writers whose works make up what Bloom calls the American SublimeWalt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Hart Crane The Daemon Knows is a must read for anyone interested in American literature.
