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It’s perhaps a historical pecularity… | blogjou

Harold Bloom

How to Read and Why

p. 159
03 Jun 2021

It's perhaps a historical pecularity...


It’s perhaps a historical pecularity, but we also lack a living woman poet who can rival Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop. Ideological cheerleading does not necessarily nurture grat, or even good, readers and writers; instead it seems to malform them.