Quote by Harold Bloom
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom

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Criticism in the universities, Ill have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. Its Stalinism without Stalin. – Harold Bloom

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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – Harold Bloom

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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