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Author: Harold Bloom
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
The tragic sense of life in Don Quixote is also the faith of Moby Dick. Ahab is a monomaniac; so is the kindlier Quixote, but both are tormented idealists who seek justice in human terms, not as theocentric men but as ungodly, godlike men.
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Harold Bloom _ How to Read and Why
Jesus is present only as a supreme representation of suffering and change, one that Shakespeare {in his dangerous era} shrewdly and invariably avoided.
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Harold Bloom _ How to Read and Why
Hope and joy, however irrational, are stronger than dispair, and ultimately more pernicious.
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Harold Bloom _ Don Quixote - Miguel de
You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who believe that almost anyone wrote Shakespeare, except Shakespeare himself.
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Harold Bloom _ The Shadow of a Great Rock: A
thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
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Harold Bloom _ How to Read and Why
Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.
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Harold Bloom
BLOOM: I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron
Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon
monsters of selfishness and exploitation. To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all. The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves.
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon
The freedom to apprehend aesthetic value may rise from class conflict, but the value is not identical with the freedom, even if it cannot be achieved without that apprehension. Aesthetic value is by definition engendered by an interaction between artists, an influencing that is always an interpretation."
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
No one dies halfway through the last act. – Heinrich Ibsen
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything.
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