Harold Bloom Quotes Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott FitzgeraldHarold Bloom QuotesWhat moves [Nick] Carraway about Gatsby [in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"} is the image of generosity, of having given oneself away to a dream.
Paperback, 2022
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. RowlingHarold Bloom QuotesHow to read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
Paperback, Large Print, 2003
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Preface to Plato
Eric A. HavelockHarold Bloom QuotesEric Havelock, whose Preface to Plato (1963) cheerfully takes Plato's side against Homer, delighted in telling me, when I was a young enthusiast for Blake and Shelley, that poetry corrupted the intellect. I was charmed by Havelock, yet hardly could be persuaded.
Paperback, 2006
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthyHarold Bloom QuotesThe prose of [Cormac McCarthy's] Blood Meridian soars, yet with its own economy, and its dialogue is always persuasive, particularly when the uncanny Judge Holden speaks.
Paperback, 1992
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott FitzgeraldHarold Bloom QuotesWhat moves [Nick] Carraway about Gatsby [in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"} is the image of generosity, of having given oneself away to a dream.
Paperback, 2004
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar WildeHarold Bloom Quotes[Oscar Wilde] is a brilliant critical thinker in the tradition of his mentors, John Ruskin and Walter Pater. Three of his essays have influenced me profoundly: “The Critic as Artist,” “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” and “The Decay of Lying.”
Paperback, 2021
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar WildeHarold Bloom Quotes[Oscar Wilde] is a brilliant critical thinker in the tradition of his mentors, John Ruskin and Walter Pater. Three of his essays have influenced me profoundly: “The Critic as Artist,” “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” and “The Decay of Lying.”
Paperback, 2016
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Keats: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
John KeatsHarold Bloom Quotes[Dante Gabriel] Rossetti thought of himself primarily as a painter. I greatly prefer his poems to his pictures, though their enigmas disturb me. A disciple of John Keats and Dante, Rossetti thinks through his poems more thoroughly than anyone now writing.
Hardcover, 1994
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The Soul of Man
Oscar WildeHarold Bloom Quotes[Oscar Wilde] is a brilliant critical thinker in the tradition of his mentors, John Ruskin and Walter Pater. Three of his essays have influenced me profoundly: “The Critic as Artist,” “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” and “The Decay of Lying.”
Hardcover, 2022
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Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
F. M. DostoevskyHarold Bloom QuotesDostoevsky's Notes from Underground features a narrator-monologist, the Underground Man, whom no reader can like or forget. The power of this protagonist is that he contaminates us: he speaks for and to our universal masochism, and we worry whether truly we share his lovelessness
Paperback, 1998
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