world if it doesn't include Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Tolstoy" and, of course "the Bible?" he asks."These are the constituents of our mind and spirit."
His book, "The Shadow of a Great Rock," tries to show the permanent aesthetic import and value of the King James Bible and how the text informs the entire tradition of literature in England and America.
from Deseret News: Patriarchs among the poets: Harold Bloom's case for the Bible as high literature
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