>"Elf-besotted fans aside, why shouldn't Tolkien be granted admission to the literary pantheon? Well, for one thing, his detractors argue, his prose is unbearably archaic. >"Sometimes, reading Tolkien, I am reminded of the Book of Mormon," writes Bloom. Tolkien's verse--which litters the text of The Lord of the Rings--is generally accepted to be even worse." You guys told me Harold Bloom was the good guy. He spoke of the evils of Harry Potter and I aligned myself with him.
It turns out he doesn't like the Lord of the Rings though? What in the hell could he have possibly meant by this?
Adrian Cooper
It's pretty obvious he's a mindless technician in his approach to writing. Pretty boring opinions desu. He would probably say Cormac McCarthy is too simple and makes grammar errors.
Henry Miller
Still not jewpilled yet?
William Harris
But I thought Bloom loved the Book of Mormon.
Brandon Russell
>KJV biblical stories have some of the most powerful literary value >Tolkien's prose is to archaic and biblical Honestly what? Bloom is usually spot on, except for Whitman
Xavier Sullivan
Bloom positively slobbers over Corncob tortilla so try again
Ryan Bell
>except for Whitman
Take that back.
Ian Edwards
Nope, he actually love McCarthy and said that he can be part of the Western Canon, together with Pynchon and Delillo.
Angel Howard
People who like Bloom are incapable of having opinions of their own
Aiden King
do you not see the difference between an archaic work having archaic prose and a modern one having [bad] archaic prose?
Isaiah Williams
>Whitman is as good as Melville Whitman was literally the worst poet up until that point. An uneducated hack who got by with line breaking bullshit for the canaille
Sebastian Hill
i've never read a book in my life and i hate bloom so there.
Kevin Hughes
Reminder that he actually likes Tolkien, he just doesn't think LotR is his greatest work.
Nolan Stewart
bloom is a prosefag
Oliver Moore
>not being a prosefag women should not be allowed on the internet
Luke Baker
Bloom is a terrible critic. He's just another person using literary fiction, because it permits such, to exhibit idée fixe after idée fixe in hopes other people with validate them as philosophies, which they can't get showings as.
He's not textual in the slightest. He just uses sources. Good critics are textual. You want a good critic? Read Mimesis by Auerbach, read Randall Jarall's reviews, read Edmund Wilson, read Cleanth Brooks.
Jacob Turner
That's true. He likes the Hobbit, I remember he said it in an interview.
Daniel Hall
take that back bloom is this board's husbando
Brandon Nelson
>don't read (((bloom))) >read (((auerbach))) you're not fooling anyone, kike
Thomas Kelly
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Camden Mitchell
>modern one having [bad] archaic prose? What like Blood Meridian? Mcarthy is better though
Aiden Garcia
>t. hasn't read Bloom
Cameron Anderson
Lmao he wrote the introduction to Blood Meridian in my edition
Brayden Powell
How is Tolkien's English unbearably archaic? Relative to the 1940's his English is fine. My own complaint with the books is that the prose is a bit flat. The verse is so-so, but does its job more or less.
Jaxson Cooper
we're not all mutts yet and on the DOTR you will hang alongside them
William Foster
nice try 52% you're not fooling anyone
Leo Howard
Strange he dismisses Tolkien while kissing Ursula Le Guin's ass.
Kevin King
What is?
Hudson Morris
This. Heaven forbid he read something by Lord Dunsany
Carson Thomas
>An uneducated hack who got by with line breaking bullshit for the canaille
Even if you don't like him I don't know how you can read something like pic related and not see the obvious poetic sense he had.
Ian Harris
There is no reason to believe that Bloom is the curator of the Western canon.
Grayson Gomez
BAN THIS MAN
Noah Torres
fpwp
Ryder Fisher
Excuse me? we're 51% now, I'll aave you know
Cooper Hernandez
Wut. In the western canon he quotes passages from books all the time. I liked a lot his interpretation of Dante's meeting with Odisseus.
Liam Reyes
Being against prosefags is not an attack on prose itself, but an attack of the critics who use prose as the sole measurement of artistic merit in a work.
It's the same deal with pretentious wankers in film who worship neat cinematography over all else because they only understand aesthetics on a single level, disregarding things like context and meaning. And films with tons of content and beauty are disregarded and shat upon because they don't meet the visual standards of a Tarkovsky or Kubrick film.
Ryder Young
Bloom constantly praises A Voyage to Arcturus which is one of the most badly written books of all time
Andrew Collins
he did
James Foster
>bashes on The Merchant of Venice because he thinks Shakespeare was an out-sized anti-semite when Shylock himself is an ambiguous character and hardly a Jewish stereotype >hates Dostoevsky purely because of A Writer's Diary where Dostoevsky's latent "anti-semitic" and hard Orthodox views are laid out
What is his problem?
Jonathan Torres
And Philip Roth too
next book I'm going to read is American Pastoral, heard it's good
Jeremiah Cooper
>bashes on The Merchant of Venice Except that he thought it was great and Shylock was exactly how you described, only misinterpreted by others?
John Campbell
Harold Bloom on Pessoa- shit opinion On Borges - shit opinion On Cervantes - ridiculous opinion, nothing relevant to say
Juan Lee
I read Bloom's Shakespeare a long time ago. Maybe he did say the play was great, but right at the beginning I distinctly remember that he wrote that he thought the play was genuinely anti-Semitic.
John Collins
dostoevsky is a sloppy, melodramatic, and crude. his writings possess no real aesthetic value.
Thomas Anderson
Lord of the Rings is pleb trash and genrefags need to get off my board.
Brody Walker
>it's a /tv/edditor tries to infect other boards with manchild debate about his super-serial funhouse amusements
Benjamin Diaz
Wew, someone hold this guy.
Luke Fisher
dude CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES lmao
Daniel Lewis
Bloom isn't Western and therefore cannot possibly curate it properly.
James Sanchez
>a semite disliking anti-semitism shocker
he liked céline enough to put him in the canon though
Leo Nguyen
ashkenazi jews have existed as a distinct population in europe longer than the existence of such fleeting constructs as germans, french, russians etc.
Ryder Reyes
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Michael Gutierrez
>hates Dostoevsky (not true, by the way)
You guys deliberately inflate Bloom's criticisms to titanic proportions with no sense of nuance or individual taste. You do it because it gives you an excuse to be aggrieved and histrionic fanboys
Maybe you should, idk, actually read him? Bloom appreciates Tolkien's humor and has plenty of praise for The Hobbit. Bloom considers Dostoyevsky a master psychologist and a canonical writer. Which shouldn't really matter if you don't demand that every literary critic align with your personal and probably undeveloped opinions
Easton Carter
you are too good for this board. leave and never return.
kike
Nathan Young
> dilms with tons of content and beauty are shat upon because they arent as visually pleasing as a Tarkovsky film what did he mean by this