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Bloomswary
If your ideal critic is someone who is learned, widely read, with the ability to concoct new ideas, and possessed of a powerful memory, Harold Bloom may well be your man. Bloom has written about more writers than perhaps any critic in the modern era. He came up with the idea of anxiety caused by literary influence and put forth the notion that a woman wrote the Bible. He is said to have memorized Wordsworth’s poem "The Prelude," a mere 736 pages in its Penguin edition. Had I lived in New Haven,…
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