The New Leader, April 3rd, 1989
H THROUGHOUT the last two decades Harold Bloom has infuriated the literary establishment by attacking its pet theories, from New Criticism to deconstructionism. An evangelist of Romanticism, Yale's controversial critic came to prominence when T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, and Allen Tate still influenced academic tastes. The Young Turk responded to their magisterial, impersonal tone intimately and intemperately. Outrageous remarks became his stock in trade. Bypassing such revered figures as Matthew Arnold, he declared Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as the 19th century's supreme literary commentators. W...
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