can help a deep reader escape from the labyrinth of influence. I have learned that my function is to help you get lost."If John Stuart Mill was right, and the difference between eloquence and poetry is that the former is heard, while the latter is overheard, then there is a genuine poetry in Mr. Bloom's ruminations that renders moot the question of whether his literary judgments are sound.
from Frank Wilson: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The passion of Harold Bloom: Literature shaped the man and the critic
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