Quotes by : Harold Bloom

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel....

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be....

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to....