"Like a literary Lear, Harold Bloom stands amid the storm, lamenting and fulminating as he fights to protect the kingdom of letters against what he calls the "rabblement of lemmings", the multicultural ideologues and political doctrinaires who assail it from all sides... His primary target is what he calls "The School of Resentment", the "rabblement" of "feminists, Afro-centrists, Marxists, Foucault-inspired New Historicists or Deconstructors" who would bend literature to ideology or pull it apart in the name of social justice. But he has equal scorn for right-leaning critics who defend the Western canon on the basis of its moral authority."
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Ben Macintyre, 'When a good read is censored by apostles of flawed ideologies', The Times (October 3, 1994), p. 7
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and writer. He was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, a former Professor of English at New York University, and the author of over twenty-five books.
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