Tag: Harold Bloom

culture, literature

Bloom’s last lilac: the death of Harold Bloom (1930-2019)

Jeff Rich

The American literary critic, or rather lover of literature, is dead at 89. There are the usual range of bad obituaries, collected over at aldaily.com, prepared by scornful woke journalists ("staff writers") on the make or embittered post-modern pedants envious of his gifts of memory, language and understanding. But these fashionable madmen cannot mar the… Continue reading Bloom’s last lilac: the death of Harold Bloom (1930-2019)

literature, Personal story

List: my lacunae in Bloom’s Western Canon

Jeff Rich

I admire Harold Bloom and his scorn for the New Schools of Resentment. I recognise my own motivations to read in his argument that "the self, in its quest to be free and solitary, ultimately reads with one aim only: to confront greatness.... Our common fate is age, sickness, death, oblivion. Our common hope, tenuous… Continue reading List: my lacunae in Bloom’s Western Canon