Harold Bloom interview on “The Western Canon” (1994)

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2. Bloom was well ahead of his time with these ideas. I recently graduated high school, and everything Bloom mentioned about inadequate literature being forced into curriculum is 100% true. I can’t count the number of terrible, insignificant novels I read in English class while great canonical texts sat untouched in our library.

3. This man is brilliant

4. I love his ideas and mostly agree with him, but damn he does have issues getting to the point. He speaks as he writes.

5. So relevant

6. happy bday bloomy

7. Aesthetiticians are it seams,almost always snobs..tweedy snobs.Of the drowsy stupor of a bourgeois deity,to borrow from Miller.The world should remain as it is for these,so it is that generations of privilege accumulated should seam so comfortable.Why not stand a little political deconstruction ? – The rot here and now is at the rancid stage,inverted totalitarianism Sheldon Wolin called it..and who are the drivers ? – Public schoolboys and their offical largesse.

8. I deeply admire this man

9. self esteem comes from actual personal achievements, not participation awards. The left are so deluded even a child could recognize the stupidity.

10. I've said this before, now i will say it again… HAROLD BLOOM IS GOD !!!!! (i loved this interview)

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12. He is my God.

13. What an interesting man. He's absolutely right when he says that literary criticism today is much too much politicized, particularly in Europe. Literary criticism must talk about aesthetic value. But today we must do that on the basis of darwinian and cognitive studies: probably Bloom wouldn't like that, but I don't think that this is a bad thing for literature. Moreover, literary criticism is not a single subject, but a really specific sector of Philosophy, AND a sector of history, and sociology, and psychology, and anthropology… But, more importantly, as Bloom says, the best literary criticism is a discourse on life, and so, it's a sector of ethics, it tell us how we should live. So, why one should today, in the age of science, be interested in literature, and in literary criticism? It's probably the most strange and isolated subject, but it's not only about books, it's not only an useless exercises. It's about how other people express their individual differences in perception and in how they see the world, and about the ability to think about that using every other discipline. It doesn't produce technical instruments or drugs, but I don't think that the prosperity of a State is only about engineering or economy. I would rather die with a view of the Mediterranean than live in dirty city totally covered with cement.

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15. NO THANKS. YOU ARE NOT MANUFACTURING MINE.

16. Note there is never any mention of Leavis.

17. 17:50

18. 8:15

19. Brilliant Bloom!

20. The sexiest man alive.

21. The wonderful Bloom

22. Read the Closing of the American Mind.

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