When Harold Bloom says things like, "[Hart Crane] has a real openness to the daemonic influx." What the fuck does he mean?
It means read Hart Crane and Harold Bloom both.
I can tell you didn't start with the Greeks.
>>9817604
read 'inspiration,' if that helps. But one with respect to the entire Western poetic tradition, and therefore one (daemonic) with what might be called a certain 'personality' (not an Eastern poetic daemon, for instance). A rough guess merely. Moot.
>>9817604
He wrote a book called The Daemon Knows where he talks about the idea of the daemon.
However that sentence can be rewritten in normal person speak as "Hart Crane has an extreme distrust in the surface of the human condition; instead, he channels from a state above that of humanity, but yet still human, to create a work that is both extremely humanistic, and yet far too aware of how humanism doesn't get us far enough."
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