Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. Harold Bloom admitcriticismenter Change image and share on social
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. Harold Bloom colorendflavor Change image and share on social
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say. Harold Bloom contaminationfreudlearn Change image and share on social
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist. Harold Bloom believecriticcriticism Change image and share on social
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. Harold Bloom declineliterarymyth Change image and share on social
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. Harold Bloom awarenesscommondeconstruction share on social
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. Harold Bloom criticdemonstrateincreasingly share on social
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. Harold Bloom begincenturycommon share on social
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. Harold Bloom analyticfactfind Change image and share on social
