Harold Bloom13 definitions
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom
1930 – 2019
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Alienation (n.) is essentially the estrangement Freud termed the Uncanny, which is our modern version of the Sublime..
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The Anxiety of influence (n.) is not an affect in a person, but the relation of one literary work to another, and so the result, rather than the cause, of a strong misreading.
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Kabbalah (n.) is, unlike other religious systems, simply, already poetry, scarcely needing translation into the realms of the aesthetic.
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Kabbalah (n.) is a system that thinks in ways not permitted by Western metaphysics, since its God is at once Ein-Sof and ayin, total presence and total absence, and all its interiors contain exteriors, while all of its effects determine its causes.
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Kabbalah (n.) is a theory of writing, but this is a theory that denies the absolute distinctions between writing and inspired speech.
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Myth (n.) is simply gossip grown old, whereas heresy is the breath of profound poetic voices.
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A Poem (n.) is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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A Poem (n.) is a dialectic of effort, resistance, and evolution into a future that never can become part of the past.
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The Uncanny (n.) is our modern version of the Sublime.
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William Shakespeare (n.) is so extraordinary that The Complete Works of Shakespeare could as soon be called The Book of Reality.
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William Shakespeare (n.) is the fist universal author, replacing the Bible in secular consciousness.