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  1. May 29, 2007 · 1/5: Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes. Taking arms against Harry Potter, at this moment, is to emulate Hamlet taking arms against a sea of troubles. By opposing the sea, you won't end it. The Harry Potter epiphenomenon will go on, doubtless for some time, as J. R. R. Tolkien did, and then wane. The official newspaper of our dominant counter-culture, The New York Times, has been ...

    • Harold Bloom
  2. © 2024 Google LLC. Harold Bloom talks about his latest book, "How to Read and Why," popular fiction, Harry Potter, the idea of individual genius and the trouble with the intern...

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    • Manufacturing Intellect
  3. Nov 4, 2023 · In this opinion piece by renowned late literary critic Harold Bloom, we see him levy the following charge against Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: I went to the Yale bookstore and bought and read a copy of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”. I suffered a great deal in the process.

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  5. Interview from 2003

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    • Henry Clavis
  6. by Harold Bloom. Bloom's WSJ essay on the Harry Potter series as evidence of dumbing down and decline. Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes. By Harold Bloom, Wall Street Journal, 7.11.2000 Taking arms against Harry Potter, at this moment, is to emulate Hamlet taking arms against a sea of troubles. By opposing the sea, you won't end it.

  7. Jul 14, 2000 · Harold Bloom And the Sorcery of Potter. July 14, 2000 12:06 am ET. One of the interesting phenomena today is the decreasing length of time between any large group of people undertaking "the...

  8. Sep 24, 2003 · Dumbing down American readers. By Harold Bloom, 9/24/2003. THE DECISION to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for "distinguished contribution" to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life. I've described King in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even ...

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