On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:06 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> But maybe this is prejudice: I loathe Harold Bloom.
I kind of adore him. Reading the Anxiety of Influence as a sophomore is one of the things that led me out of the Party of the Right - intertextuality is a lot more fun than the Cleanth Brooks-ish close reading I'd been into as a reactionary. In the (huge) lecture class I took with him, I found him weirdly charming. I know he's kind of ridiculous sometimes, but what the hell?
Doug