February 21st, 2010 / 12:53 pm
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Harold Bloom recites “Tea at the Palace of Hoon” by Wallace Stevens

with a hearty hat-tip to Adam Fitzgerald. Happy Sunday!

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21 Comments

  1. Joshua Marie Wilkinson

      wow i loved this thanks for posting it!

  2. Joshua Marie Wilkinson

      wow i loved this thanks for posting it!

  3. Justin Taylor

      My pleasure. I loved it too!

  4. Justin Taylor

      My pleasure. I loved it too!

  5. Amy McDaniel

      you will learn to love stevens, yet, you

  6. Amy McDaniel

      you will learn to love stevens, yet, you

  7. Justin Taylor

      I was just thinking these exact words, actually; only with a “me” where your “you” is, and a “maybe” tossed somewhere in there. I would love some ointment on my beard right now. As I listen to this for the I don’t know tenth time today?

  8. Justin Taylor

      I was just thinking these exact words, actually; only with a “me” where your “you” is, and a “maybe” tossed somewhere in there. I would love some ointment on my beard right now. As I listen to this for the I don’t know tenth time today?

  9. David

      There’s some really mesmerising, impassioned, in his tic of lifting his glasses to his crown and then dropping them back to the bridge of his nose again.

  10. David

      *something

  11. David

      There’s some really mesmerising, impassioned, in his tic of lifting his glasses to his crown and then dropping them back to the bridge of his nose again.

  12. David

      *something

  13. Le Ka Ka Ka Ka Line Uh

      Dude, with all due respect, the glasses, on or off . . .

  14. Le Ka Ka Ka Ka Line Uh

      Dude, with all due respect, the glasses, on or off . . .

  15. Joshua Marie Wilkinson

      I liked that tic, too.

  16. Joshua Marie Wilkinson

      I liked that tic, too.

  17. ryan

      Great reading. How recent is this? Prof Bloom looks so much more aged here than I’ve ever seen him. Hope he’s okay. . . .

  18. ryan

      Great reading. How recent is this? Prof Bloom looks so much more aged here than I’ve ever seen him. Hope he’s okay. . . .

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  21. Thomas Graves

      next he will read a poem on dumbledore’s beard