What are your thoughts on Bloom as a critic, and as a defender of the western canon?

What are your thoughts on Bloom as a critic, and as a defender of the western canon?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Start with yours

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He can use a lot of words to say shockingly little, belaboring his points when what he could really use are some examples and some specificity. That all being said, I really do think some of his ideas, namely anxiety of influence, have substantial value and should be more and better explored.

      I will always respect and admire his defense of the western canon on a basis of aesthetics, even when some of his defense falls into the same problems as his critique. He's the man who got me reading Shakespeare and I am all the better for it. Some of the things he said about the school of resentment were prophecy.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Thank you for your thoughtful and informative post.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    lmfao joo

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The schools of resentment are bad unless I can use them against authors I am not fond of.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Based

      I never even heard of him, I don't know why I would have an opinion of him.

      Cring

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        y e s

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I never even heard of him, I don't know why I would have an opinion of him.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I haven't read a lot of his criticisms, I'm just familiar with his general advocacy and book list.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lying homosexual who claims to be able to speed-read Shakespeare at the rate he can turn the pages. But in practice he reads it much slower, "to enjoy it." I shit you not, he said this in an interview.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >able to speed-read Shakespeare at the rate he can turn the pages. But in practice he reads it much slower, "to enjoy it."
      Can't this be said of almost everyone who reads regularly? Few people read as fast as they can, at least.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Maybe I didn't make myself clear. He claims to be able to read -- that is, actually take in -- a page of Shakespeare in, at most, a few seconds (the time it takes to turn to the next page). It's not even physically possible for your eyes to scan a page thoroughly enough to recognize all the words in that length of time, much less "read" them. It blows my mind a bit that he thinks people are gullible enough to believe something like that. I mean, some people will be willing to believe that le genius professor has superhuman powers, but certainly not everyone.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >He claims to be able to read -- that is, actually take in -- a page of Shakespeare in, at most, a few seconds (the time it takes to turn to the next page)
          Lel maybe he has a copy with tiny pages.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A treasure, but he also suffered some serious old man-itis. Like, yeah Harry Potter is garbage, but kids can only understand garbage. Making them read Shakespeare is a waste of time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There are better books for kids than Harry Potter. Hell when most people we're reading Potter I was reading unabridged Verne.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >jew
    >defender of western canon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes. Also, there are israelites in the Western canon.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    bloom is a first rate scoundrel.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      harold bloom is a rapey b***h who's best work was ghostwritten by the students he was fricking

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Harold Bloom's rape sagas are deeply ingrained in the university lores of united states english lit departments
        seriously tho who was covering for that ghastly slobby gourd as he spunked the queued undergrad snizz?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Harold Bloom fricked my aunt's feet but he also wrote her a career-changing letter of recommendation

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Pics of your aunt’s feet?

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Dedicate your entire life to criticising the writing of others
    >Never write anything original of your own

    I know he wrote a sci-fi book once, but I think he distanced himself from it and it's no longer in print.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    He looks like a boiled potato wrapped in boiled cabbage, probably smells like it too

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >scroll to bottom of list
    >see tony kushner
    no thanks, israelite

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