The previous post, "Colorful Tales," on the Nov. 28, 2016, death
of one Angus Fletcher, together with the remarks indexed above,
suggest a review from …
The archives of The New York Times —
"THE ANATOMY OF INFLUENCE
Literature as a Way of Life
By Harold Bloom
357 pp. Yale University Press. $32.50.
Sam Tanenhaus is the editor of the Book Review.
A version of this review appeared in print
on May 22, 2011, on Page BR1 of the
Sunday Book Review with the headline:
'An Uncommon Reader.'"
"By this time, Bloom had burrowed into a cave,
its lamplit forms and shapes merging into
an occult mythos scarcely intelligible
even to other scholars. 'Bloom had an idea,'
Christopher Ricks said; 'now the idea has him.'
Cynthia Ozick, meanwhile, called him an 'idol-maker.'
In contrast to Cleanth Brooks . . . ."
An illustration from "The Echo in Plato's Cave" linked to
in the previous post —
Judy Davis in the Marabar Caves
Cynthia Ozick on Bloom —
See also Dharwadker in the previous post and on the Higgs boson.