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Topic: Harold Bloom

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Camcorder,  Digital camera,  Typewriter
Most admires:T S Eliot,  Robert Frost,  Pope John Paul II
Politics:Pacifist
Religion(s):Christian - Catholic
Favorite artist(s):Rolf Harris
Favorite author(s):George Eliot,  Charles Dickens,  Virginia Woolf
Interest(s):Community Theatre
Favorite time of year:Spring
Favorite quote(s):"Criticism is prejudice made plausible." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
 
 
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant

Harold Bloom, who had already singled out Nothing Like the Sun for special praise in The Western Canon , praises Burgess again (this time for his "critical wisdom") in the recent Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human (pp.
To mention but one such figure, Harold Bloom has become one of the most prominent voices calling attention to the creative character of the Gnostic alternative to mainstream religion.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Horgan makes reference to the critic Harold Bloom's argument, in his "The Anxiety of Influence," that latter-day poets are stuck with defining themselves in opposition to towering predecessors whom they can never surpass.
Initially, it was inspired by Harold Bloom's The Book of J which posits that the earliest author of the bible was a woman in King David's court.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

The American critic Harold Bloom has created the term ¡°Anxiety of Influence¡± for the complex feelings of inferiority and hostility each young writer is bound to feel for the great models who went before.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

Harold Bloom calls Q2, F1, and the conflated Hamlet of 3880 lines "Shakespeare's White Elephant" and "an anomaly in the canon" because they are so long.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Professor Harold Bloom , best-selling author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and America's leading literary critic, spent the evening with Cleopatra, Gertrude, Cressida, Hermione, Isabella, and Lady Macbeth.
Professor Harold Bloom, of Yale University, celebrated author-poet and Honorary Chairman of The Shakespeare Society recently said "this organization is one of the most wonderful signs of the cultural renaissance that Shakespeare is now happily undergoing in the United States … Each year The Shakespeare Society will provide five challenging and stimulating events to examine the influence Shakespeare continues to have on our lives and culture.
Best-selling author Harold Bloom and a company of seasoned Shakespearean actors, explore the ever prevalent "green-eyed" monster of sexual jealousy in such masterworks as Othello , Winter's Tale , and Cymbeline.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

He was a doctoral candidate at Yale studying modern authors such as Harold Bloom, John Hollander and Geoffrey Hartman.
David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist

For the first time in the history of the controversy, major orthodox scholars are forced into public debate: Gail Kern Paster, editor of the Shakespeare Quarterly, Harold Bloom of Yale University, Johnathan Bate of Liverpool, and join Irv Matus in defending the orthodox position.
Mark Harris,
Priest

In that case, we are saying that we can still distinguish, following Harold Bloom, a canon of specifically literary works.
 
 
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