Quotes by : Harold Bloom

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea....

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

[Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual,....

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between....

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy....

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the....

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two....

The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is....