Harold Bloom on Walt Whitman and Jazz
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Published 2014-03-19
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Harold Bloom is found in my inner ear, the best guide there was and ever will be in our age of cynicism and other nonsenses. It feels awkward to really praise him as if he were not part of me myself, so I praise him and me because he is always with me and guiding me onward and onward helping me learn, know and live.
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Professor Harold Bloom's voice speaks volumes of a life absorbed by literature, music, and art. 🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵
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Love this. I’m nodding my head at times, shaking it in disgust at other times.
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Such a delight to hear your conversation with Prof. Bloom. An astonishing mind and decisive command of language. Thank you for uploading this!
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41:47 is when they finally discuss Jazz
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Bloom was a man of great memory and imagination.
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One of his most lucid and straightforward discussions.. Thanks so much.
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It just makes sense. “Song Of Myself” is a series of rhapsodic tangents, a zooming in and out along parts of a world which eventually culminate in a unifying climax.
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God I love this guy
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I just finished reading Leaves of Grass, so I appreciate Mr. Bloom taking the time to give this talk!
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Beautifully presented / observed
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Harold Bloom is a master of his craft. You must listen for what you agree and throw out the rest. e
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if this man is not endlessly fascinating no one is
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37:00 love this rant
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Grass is the most evolved form of angiosperms or flowering plants, appearing fifty million years ago along with lagomorphs (rabbits), long after the dinosaur extinction. Angiosperms, flowers, first appeared a hundred and thirty million years ago during the Jurassic. Grass is new and simple. America is new and simple.
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"The two great American contributions to the world's art in the end are Walt Whitman and after him; Armstrong and jazz."
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i'm always fascinated listening to this guy--and always wondering--can he be for real?... obviously he has incredible intellectual capacities, but listening at 18:20, i must ask: is it really possible to read a page in 3.6 seconds ... "easily"?
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Once I had a dream I was taking a lit. class at Harvard and on the final exam the question was: "What did the Beat poets have in common Walt Whitman? Well, I've never read either one so i can't say, but I'm sure Prof. Bloom would have something to say about it.
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as everybody knows, its one equal temper of heroic hearts so much for memorizing
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The 1855 Leaves of Grass is still the best American book.
