"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction b…"

"I must say these Oxfordians are very virulent and, forgive me for saying it, very crazy people indeed."

"Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation."

"Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to …"

"Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/ridd…"

"Bloom is very interested in the powerful "characters" which are thrown up in the process. He celebrates Goethe's "uni…"

"as Harold Bloom said, “You want novelty? Read the classics.”"

"Like a literary Lear, Harold Bloom stands amid the storm, lamenting and fulminating as he fights to protect the kingd…"

"Harold Bloom’s theory is that all poets are in competition with their forebears, and that in paying homage to them th…"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"