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  1. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket
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  2. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.
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  3. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.
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  4. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.
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  5. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    The unity of a great era is generally an illusion.
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  6. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    One reads for oneself and for strangers.
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  7. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.
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  8. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
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  9. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.
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  10. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Infinite knowledge can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance."
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  11. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.
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  12. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".
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