One of our greatest literary critics. There will only be one Harold Bloom. Found out today that he passed away this past October. What a loss. RIP Great soul!
This recitation is so glorious, and this poem is so horrendously beautiful that watching this truly makes me never want to write a poem again as it will be so poor in comparison
Dasein is basically Heidegger's word for 'human being' whose primary characteristic is a being-unto-death. I see very little connection between the Crane poem and Heidegger, although Heideggerians will argue till they're blue in the face that it has connections to everything.
@vanderbilt887 I don't. But look, if you haven't already, for Hugh Kenner, who I am familar with mainly because of a relatively short book on Samuel Beckett which was as lucid as it was concise. And now it strikes me that I have never loked for him on You Tube, our Alexadrian Library.
@isselman2000 The next person to turn Otto Rank's work (as well as the story of his relationship to Rank's "father figure," Freud) into metaphors for literary creation will be the successor to HB--that, plus cribbing from Meyer Abrams and Northrop Frye and PRESTO!, the next Harold Bloom.
@isselman2000 People will always read for higher purposes than the political. Whether they do it in the universities or not. A billion or thousands, it will not die. Bloom says in "An Elegy for the Canon" from "The Western Canon" of 1993, that "his" school of reading may go "underground" soon and lose the connection to the university English faculties, which are now being influenced and overtaken by the whimsical and petty cohort of moralist ideologies known as cultural studies. It may be better
In my view, we figure out what we are teaching in school and why in light of what he did. What's in a first and last name? Bloom's taxonomy and the enterprise of educational testing? Jesus, without him I and so many others are going to have to be a lot more brave in what we advocate and teach. You asked the million-dollar question. I liked and replied.
Ah yeah, I couldn’t remember where the “Whitman” stanza came from. Must have seemed the politic choice to leave the poem’s title out of the video’s title. (Sheesh.)
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has pulled it off yet. Unless you're talking about the undead of course, but since they aren't even technically alive, it's doubtful. Ultimately, science, not Imhotep, will find a way!
The good professor claims to consider Crane the better poet, but not even Shakespeare animates him to the degree of Stevens. I suspect it is the politics of Stevens that restrains his voiced opinion.
Ahh of course he'd pick this poem the dastardly anti-realist. But remember even mountain minded Hoon wasn't happy after a while, imagination without the thing itself to reference eventually grows empty of shadows. (Bloom's a treasure of course I just think he gets Stevens slightly wrong)
Everybody!? That's *quite* a sweeping statement. I'm not altogether convinced. You conclude this,I presume, purely by induction -but it's like saying everyone has bowel movements. Even If if the principal of induction is valid, I ask: how many people have you actually *seen* die or take a shit? I'm neither a parent, a nursing home attendant, a serial murderer, nor a scat fetishist, so my own answer in both cases is(thank god!) exactly zero. And yours?. So wherefore your dubious conclusion?
Moreover, I do see a thread joining the pathologically opaque Mr Rumsfeld and the pathologically opaque Mr. Heidegger, both of whom are notorious for the blinding circularity of their logic, a logic which depends on an aggressive impulse to dismantle the prospect of comprehension. That the honorable Mr Bloom, who has railed against imported obfuscation for years long and loud is even remotely conected to any discussion of the dour old Nazis well modulated psychosis is, you know, terrible.
My goodness, I love Harold Bloom. No one will be able to take up his mantle when he passes. What a sad day that will be.
"Nothing is Final!"
"I was myself the compass of the sea..and there I found myself more truly strange....no man shall see the end."
One of our greatest literary critics. There will only be one Harold Bloom. Found out today that he passed away this past October. What a loss. RIP Great soul!
Dr. BLOOM was certainly ONE of a kind. A complete treasure to behold!
Absolutely fabulous. Bravo, professor Bloom RIP He always recited with such passion and genuine feeling, it bordered on chilling inspiration.
A delightful reading. And what an extraordinary face.
As if I heard the poem for the first time... Wonderful!
Man is excellently made, and there is always...something to do.
I love you Harold Bloom forever. Adon Olam.
Aesthetic splendor? Check.
Cognitive power? Check.
Wisdom? Check.
The Good Professor strikes again!
Glasses? Double-check. Triple-check. Continue to check.
Glasses on...glasses off......glasses on....glasses off......glasses on....glasses offf
"Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries All."
❤❤❤
What will we do without Harold Bloom? He has no successor.
As he is finishing his way
he is the real Lear King face.
there are two poems read, both from stevens. btw that is bloom after all.
This recitation is so glorious, and this poem is so horrendously beautiful that watching this truly makes me never want to write a poem again as it will be so poor in comparison
seems like, without a beard you're out of business! Thank-a-you, Childe Harolde!
Dasein is basically Heidegger's word for 'human being' whose primary characteristic is a being-unto-death. I see very little connection between the Crane poem and Heidegger, although Heideggerians will argue till they're blue in the face that it has connections to everything.
O beauty
Where does what come from? The video or my quote?
The quote comes from the concluding lines of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad.
A nice reading.
@vanderbilt887 I don't. But look, if you haven't already, for Hugh Kenner, who I am familar with mainly because of a relatively short book on Samuel Beckett which was as lucid as it was concise. And now it strikes me that I have never loked for him on You Tube, our Alexadrian Library.
(chuckle)
I was just pulling your leg.
I was stoned when I wrote that.
@isselman2000 The next person to turn Otto Rank's work (as well as the story of his relationship to Rank's "father figure," Freud) into metaphors for literary creation will be the successor to HB--that, plus cribbing from Meyer Abrams and Northrop Frye and PRESTO!, the next Harold Bloom.
MrIgnobleScaveneger,
I sense that your primary aspiration is to rise so high
that when you shit
you don't miss
anyone.
W/ apologies to William Gass.
@isselman2000 People will always read for higher purposes than the political. Whether they do it in the universities or not. A billion or thousands, it will not die. Bloom says in "An Elegy for the Canon" from "The Western Canon" of 1993, that "his" school of reading may go "underground" soon and lose the connection to the university English faculties, which are now being influenced and overtaken by the whimsical and petty cohort of moralist ideologies known as cultural studies. It may be better
In my view, we figure out what we are teaching in school and why in light of what he did. What's in a first and last name? Bloom's taxonomy and the enterprise of educational testing? Jesus, without him I and so many others are going to have to be a lot more brave in what we advocate and teach. You asked the million-dollar question. I liked and replied.
Where does this come from? Is there more?
@isselman2000
I agrree with you. He is unique
R I P
*high-five*
He's 78. Everybody dies.
Harold Bloom lost a vast amount of weight that it is unbelievable for someone to lose so much in his age.
What..wher did the rest of this come from...I can't find the second half anywhere
«Like Decorations».
He left out half a line of "Like Decorations", but it was still a strong misreading.
Ah yeah, I couldn’t remember where the “Whitman” stanza came from. Must have seemed the politic choice to leave the poem’s title out of the video’s title. (Sheesh.)
Why does this remind me of Rumsfeld explaining certain aspects of the disaster in Iraq? And I'm not just responding to the tautology.
@PathosDistanz Is it you?
Don't mind me, I'm pretty fucked up at the moment . ^^
What’s with the glasses?
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has pulled it off yet. Unless you're talking about the undead of course, but since they aren't even technically alive, it's doubtful. Ultimately, science, not Imhotep, will find a way!
Why can't he leave his glasses alone?
Cuz the poem excites him so!
I like to imagine that despite being a celebrated professor, Bloom just can't find a fine optometrist.
Which poem is he reciting, after Hoon? Thanks.
mercop14 Like Decorations
The good professor claims to consider Crane the better poet, but not even Shakespeare animates him to the degree of Stevens. I suspect it is the politics of Stevens that restrains his voiced opinion.
Ahh of course he'd pick this poem the dastardly anti-realist. But remember even mountain minded Hoon wasn't happy after a while, imagination without the thing itself to reference eventually grows empty of shadows. (Bloom's a treasure of course I just think he gets Stevens slightly wrong)
Ahem... Palaz of Hoon
No, just a very tiny part of what literature means.
Is it possible to "survive" death? Resurrection is dying and then coming back, but you can't really die and survive death at the same time.
Everybody!? That's *quite* a sweeping statement.
I'm not altogether convinced.
You conclude this,I presume, purely by induction -but it's like saying everyone has bowel movements.
Even If if the principal of induction is valid, I ask: how many people have you actually *seen* die or take a shit?
I'm neither a parent, a nursing home attendant, a serial murderer, nor a scat fetishist, so my own answer in both cases is(thank god!) exactly zero.
And yours?.
So wherefore your dubious conclusion?
I see.
Who/What is Dasein?
Who, you?
Yet.
There’s got to be someway to deal with those glasses,…
@isselman2000
Well, first we have to know who Harold Bloom actually is. . .
And it is not this man.
Moreover, I do see a thread joining the pathologically opaque Mr Rumsfeld and the pathologically opaque Mr. Heidegger, both of whom are notorious for the blinding circularity of their logic, a logic which depends on an aggressive impulse to dismantle the prospect of comprehension. That the honorable Mr Bloom, who has railed against imported obfuscation for years long and loud is even remotely conected to any discussion of the dour old Nazis well modulated psychosis is, you know, terrible.
How ironic...
Too early to say.
he makes me nervous.... this is surely a pagan poem like that guy ferdinand nietzsche
I don't think that's harold bloom.
Show me solid proof of a man who has survived death.
Did he loose weight or something? he looks so skinny here compare to his photos
Bloom has lost a lot of weight...