Where Shall Wisdom be Found?Riverhead Books, 2004 - 284 páginas Emulating one of his favorite critics, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Bloom returns once more to sift through the Western canon, this time to discern and describe those writers whose brand of wisdom he holds in highest esteem. Beginning with Job and Ecclesiastes, and ranging from Plato, Homer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Johnson and Goethe to Emerson, Nietzsche, Freud and Proust, Bloom writes about each as he evaluates by comparison and teases out indicators of their subtle interrelationships. Into this study he interjects a personal note, describing how he is writing in the aftermath of life-threatening illness and with a renewed sense of the preciousness of literature's great lessons. At the heart of Bloom's project is the ancient quarrel between "poetry" and "philosophy." In Bloom's opinion, we ought not have to choose between Homer and Plato; we can have both, as long as we recognize that poetry is superior. Bloom considers Cervantes and Shakespeare the masters of wisdom in modern literature, "equals of Ecclesiastes, and the Book of Job, of Homer and Plato." He justifies his tastes with close readings of King Lear and Macbeth that find a Shakespearean variety of nihilism, a form of wisdom Bloom identifies as central to the poetic tradition. |
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Harold Bloom. authentic miracle of literary fecundity at its most absolute . John- son still seems to me the best of all literary critics , while Goethe is the unmatchable poet of Old Europe . Johnson would have been a great poet ...
Harold Bloom. authentic miracle of literary fecundity at its most absolute . John- son still seems to me the best of all literary critics , while Goethe is the unmatchable poet of Old Europe . Johnson would have been a great poet ...
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... literary critic , and Burchfield accepts new pressures on his enterprise , sometimes ruefully , but always with a stoic grace . His balanced defense of the lexicographer caught between bitter camps is manifested most forcefully in the ...
... literary critic , and Burchfield accepts new pressures on his enterprise , sometimes ruefully , but always with a stoic grace . His balanced defense of the lexicographer caught between bitter camps is manifested most forcefully in the ...
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... literary character , the God of Ezra the Redactor rather than the uncanny Yahweh of the J writer . If the Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas is also to be regarded as a literary character , then at least he too will be the right literary ...
... literary character , the God of Ezra the Redactor rather than the uncanny Yahweh of the J writer . If the Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas is also to be regarded as a literary character , then at least he too will be the right literary ...
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Wisdom | 1 |
THE POWER OF WISDOM | 9 |
THE GREATEST IDEAS ARE | 117 |
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Achilles aesthetic American ancient aphorisms Augustine Bacon become believe Book of Job Burchfield century Cervantes's Christian Civilization critic culture Dante David death desire divine Don Quixote Ecclesiastes Emerson Emersonian essay everything Falstaff father fear Freud Ginés gnostic gods Goethe Goethe's Gospel of Thomas Greek Hamlet Hebraic Hebrew Bible Homer human Idols Iliad imagination ironic irony jealousy Jesus Jewish Kabbalah kind King Lear Knight Koheleth language Lear's literary living Macbeth meaning memory mind Montaigne Montaigne's moral nature never Nietz Nietzsche Nietzsche's Odette Odysseus one's pain Pascal perhaps person philosopher Plato Plato's Socrates poem poet poetic poetry pragmatic prophet Proust Proverbs quest reader reality religion renunciation Republic sage Saint Samuel Johnson Sancho Panza scholars seems sense Shakespeare skepticism Solomon soul spirit sublime suffering superb superego teaching things thou tion tradition translation truth vanity vision wisdom literature wisdom writer words Yahweh Yahwist Zeus
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