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