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"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in..." — Harold Bloom

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom Critic • American
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