NP..."Like a patient etherized upon a table".....

[Alex Colter]

Mr. Rosen provides a charming example of what Prof. Bloom, calls (and
Pynchon seems to agree) 'The School of Resentment', whose argument
typically goes something like this [fill in the blank]: "Oh you prefer
[this poet] to [that poet] because of [perceived aesthetic differences]?
You must be [anti-semitic, racist, sexist, et al]."

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I guess I remember, buried, closer to fact than opinion,-- my
> conflation--, remarks like these from Jonathon Rosen in the NYTimes in 2005:
> " Bloom had somehow dislodged T. S. Eliot from his dominant position in
> the syllabus and replaced him with Wallace Stevens, and though there was a
> fine literary argument for this that had to do with Milton and his Romantic
> heirs, as opposed to the metaphysical poets favored by Eliot, I always
> suspected it had to do with the fact that Eliot was an anti-Semite."
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 12:34 PM
> Subject: Re: NP..."Like a patient etherized upon a table".....
>
>
> Bloom considers Eliot among the foremost American Poets of the 20th
> Century. However Dr. Bloom began his career as a student of Northrop Frye
> and a fierce defender of the Romantics, in stark contrast to Mr. Eliot's
> 'New Criticism'. Bloom insists, and grows more zealous with age, on the
> influence of Whitman upon the young poet, something Mr. Eliot seems to have
> done his best to resist, even ironically quoting Whitman here and there.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> PaulVermeersch Somehow, the study of English literature became the study
> of French philosophy without anyone calling bullshit.
> >
> >I don't know who this tweeter is, but if you have, as I have, refurbished
> some of your English Lit background with more immersion
> >in T. S. Eliot (and pal Ezra)'s profound influence on modernism in
> literature---T.S. with a PhD in Bergson and a formative
> >self-education in the French Symbolists---we see it in TRP and WG (I
> think) and John Ashbery and
> >many others, then this remark can strike one.
> >
> >No wonder Bloom disses T.S. and praises Emerson to the heavens,
> transcendentally.
> >
> >
>
>
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