[lbo-talk] Liberals

C. G. Estabrook galliher at illinois.edu
Wed Jun 1 11:19:44 PDT 2011


His opinion of Shakespeare rivals that of many Evangelicals of the Most High (and is about as accurate), but (perhaps again like them) what he has to say on the matter can be interesting, if untrustworthy...

On 6/1/11 8:23 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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
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