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

[Alex Colter]

And whilst We The People have no Whitman or Emerson among us the Remnant
surely do.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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