Harold Bloom

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Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic.

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  • I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.
    • Interview in Criticism in Society (1987), edited by Imre Salusinski
  • Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
    • The Anatomy of Influence (2011), p. 142
  • Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.
    • The Anatomy of Influence (2011), p. 142

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