![]() ![]() I added quotes from almost all parts of the book to the reading updates to show the consistency of his fixation, even when it seems absurd. The other theme is that the School of Resentment is destroying great literature. The first is that Shakespeare is in every single work of fiction of any importance, and that Shakespeare always "wins" in an unspecified aesthetic value contest. What makes Bloom seem like an "impressive scholar", when he is clearly just repeating his mantra over and over again? He has two main themes, actually. Too much hatred, too much bias, and too much bigotry and repetition to get more than a solitary star for being a printed book with letters in it. My reading experience after finishing has not changed the overall impression, but it has made me think, and I took away the second star, which initially was awarded for writing style and erudition. So killed what he loved, and emptied the Room! Who thought Great Literature faced Final Doom, There was an old critic called Harold Bloom, ![]()
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