On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> I 
> don't remember Bloom's book well enough to argue with 
> him, but the whole notion is starting to seem like 
> a Modernist predicament, back-projected onto earlier 
> writers. 
Bloom didn't put it this way, but it is about the bourgeois individual, from emergence through decadence.
Doug