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Harold Bloom Quotes
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Famous Harold Bloom Quotations
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Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American author, intellectual and renowned literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has constructed controversial theories of poetic influence, and advocates an aesthetic approach to literature against feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, post-modernist (deconstructive and semiotic), and other methods of academic literary criticism. Bloom is currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University
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- I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. Harold Bloom »
- Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom »
- We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. Harold Bloom »
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