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  1. 1 day ago · For Harold Bloom, our intellectual strength, the strength of Western civilization, consists in the canon: “Without the Canon we cease to think.” Reading canonical literature serves the individual exclusively: “It enables one to know and endure oneself as a human being.” (essay by Cicero Bruce)

  2. 6 days ago · Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1 The world's preeminent literary critic talks about his life and work in this entertaining and enlightening interview in The Paris Review Recently, Harold Bloom has been under attack not just in scholarly journals and colloquia, but also in newspapers, on the op-ed page, on television and radio.

  3. Apr 27, 2024 · Harold Bloom on the power of reading aloud. April 27th, 2024. Though I urge possession-by-memory of poems, through repeated readings, I suspect that reading aloud is also a valid test for poetry and fictional prose alike. Reciting a bad poem is a distressing experience, reading aloud a poor story is scarcely better.

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  5. Apr 25, 2024 · In this unique anthology, world-renowned scholar Harold Bloom weaves a tapestry from the many strands of American religious experience and practice: the searching meditations of Puritan pioneers, the evangelical fervor of the Great Awakenings, the mystical currents of transcendentalism, the diverse influences of the world religions that have ...

    • Laurie Robb
    • 2013
  6. Apr 25, 2024 · Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance by Harold Bloom (Introduction by) This remarkable novel documents the life of an American of mixed ethnicity who moves freely in society — from the rural South to the urban North and eventually, Europe. A revolutionary work which not only probes the psychological aspects of ...

    • Laurie Robb
    • 2013
  7. May 10, 2024 · ISBN-10: 0-7910-9621-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-9621-5. Publisher: Blooms Literary Criticism. Country: English language. Year: July 2008. Edition: New Edition. Size: 6.30 x 9.30 x 0.90 inch. Number of pages: 285.

  8. May 7, 2024 · existentialism Harold Bloom Quote William Shakespeare Poem irony nature memory metaphysical critic philosophy time elegy reflections Plato culture dig human sapphic. Spillwords.com presents: In Memory of Harold Bloom, a poem by Jake Sheff, a pediatrician in Oregon and veteran of the US Air Force.

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