A Gnostic Swansong...poet montague in Irish Times on Harold Bloom

[Mark Kohut]

This angry note, like an Old Testament prophet or Jesus chastising Jerusalem, resounds in The Anatomy of Influence. He thunders, “Twenty-first-century America is in a state of decline . . . We have approached bankruptcy, fought wars we cannot pay for, and defrauded our urban and rural poor. Our troops include felons, and mercenaries of many nations are among our ‘contractors’ . . . We have no Emerson or Whitman among us”.
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