Harold Bloom on Shakespeare
Eminent literary critic and author of "Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human," Harold Bloom, expounds on Yahweh, Hamlet, Cleopatra, Falstaff, being, and the great playwright himself in this culminating lecture of "Shakespeare at Yale," a term-long festival of the Bard.
Harold Bloom/Quotes
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
Harold Bloom is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities
at Yale University.
Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than forty books, including twenty books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel.
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