Bloom’s Gnovel
Marilyn Butler
- The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy by Harold Bloom
Faber, 240 pp, £4.95, May 1980, ISBN 0 374 15644 1
Harold Bloom of Yale has become strangely hard to avoid. Eloquent, prolific, charismatic, he is unmistakably one of the leading living mandarins of literary criticism. His manner of writing has not endeared him to the professional Establishment – his hyperboles, as he once remarked, have been unacceptable to the scholars of poetic tradition. On the other hand, there has been something in his matter which has made it difficult for non-hyperbolic scholars either to catch him out or to shake him off.
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Vol. 2 No. 13 · 3 July 1980 » Marilyn Butler » Bloom’s Gnovel (print version)
pages 11-12 | 2506 words