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

[Alex Colter]

I have uniformly been both dreading and eagerly awaiting the day of the
release of this book. But, then again, I am young.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:33 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:

> And it is not even America ...
>
> There is a wonderful dialog in Portis’ Dog of the South between Ray
> and a man from Canada in the course of which the latter says: "You
> guys just stole that name" (I'm quoting from memory, 600 miles between
> me and the book).
>
> 2011/8/10 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> > 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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