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Power Quote: Harold Bloom

If the essence of poetry is invention, as Dr. Johnson rightly maintained, then the classical Walpurgis Night shows us what poetry essentially is: a controlled wildness, a radical originality that subsumes previous strength, and, most of all, the creation of new myth.

The Western Canon , “Goethe’s Faust, Part Two: The Countercanonical Poem”

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March 28th, 2009 / 12:59 pm

Power Quote: Harold Bloom

I myself, as a student of gnosis, whether poetic or religious, judge the poem to be neither truth nor fiction but rather Dante’s knowing, which he chose to name Beatrice. When you know most intensely, you do not necessarily decide whether it is truth or fiction; what you know primarily is that the knowing is truly your own.

The Western Canon, “The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice”

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March 23rd, 2009 / 12:18 pm