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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 days ago · There are multiple 'theories' of literature. If you're struggling with the approach of that particular book you could try others. I like Terry Eagleton's book on Literary Theory as an introduction. But you can't go wrong with Harold Bloom if you're interested in the pleasure of literature. Much of his stuff is available on audiobook too.
3 days ago · Both Anthony Nuttall of Oxford University and Harold Bloom of Yale University have endorsed the view of Shakespeare having revised the tragedy at least once during his lifetime. As Bloom indicates: "At the close of Shakespeare's revised King Lear, a reluctant Edgar becomes King of Britain, accepting his destiny but in the accents of despair ...
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3 days ago · Shakespeare had, after all, successfully transformed the Middle Ages’ mythical Amleth into what the critic Harold Bloom has called the first psychologically modern human. An adaptation that updates an original, while yet succeeding on its own, new, terms, may be the Holy Grail not only of storytelling, but culture as a whole.
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1 day ago · Harold Bloom writes that "Whatever his achievement as a critic of literature, society or religion, his work as a poet may not merit the reputation it has continued to hold in the twentieth century. Arnold is, at his best, a very good, but highly derivative poet, unlike Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, Swinburne and Rossetti, all of whom ...
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- Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools
- Poetry; literary, social and religious criticism
- 24 December 1822, Laleham, England
2 days ago · Mythological music of Billy McBride. Music made every day. Every day. And so far by doing this, I, Billy M., have a vast mythological catalog here on YouT...
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