On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
> It does seem awfully crude to read a crude political message into the symbolism of a masterpiece
> by one of the very greatest poets, whatever his prose animadversions about the Mussolini
> of the early 1920's.
Harold Bloom is many things, but I wouldn't include "crude" on the list.
Doug