“ Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes ”
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.
~ Harold Bloom
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.
