Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude ca… - Harold Bloom

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

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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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Alternative Names: Harold Irving Bloom

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Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.

Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. - Harold Bloom

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