NY Times overview of Harold Bloom’s career

HERE.

I for one always enjoy reading him.

My favorite passage by the reviewer:

“The New Critics, the best of them skilled technicians in the art of close reading, narrowed their study to individual poems, each seen as an airtight mechanism or operating system that, if painstakingly dissected, would yield its hidden meaning, usually reducible to a cluster of ironies and paradoxes.”

The last phrase after the comma is what I love.