Why did he lie about the stretched his legs thing?

>>25113374
I don't think I ever saw this board turn on another person as radically as with Bloom. Like, JP sort of comes to mind, but he was never universally liked to begin with at any point, so it's not the same thing.

>>25113416
/pol/negro mind virus

>>25113416
Bloom was a massive pseud. He presents a veneer of erudition that dilettantes worship but if you've ever actually read his criticism it is extremely sloppy and arbitrary. Another case of a literary critic thinking he's anything more than a populariser. People who love him are essentially the literary equivalent of children that never grew up and always require a father figure.

>>25113447
This. His work can be boiled down to:
>I love Shakespeare
>This other writer is good, but not as good as Shakespeare
>I also like this other writer because their work somehow has Gnostic qualities

I love how he is so pretentious that he won't/can't entertain the idea that someone can ever end up reading "serious" literature if their starting point was Harry Potter.

Imagine if he knew I started by reading manga...

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>>25113374
He was never an intellectually rigorous critic, but that's what made him so lovable. His obsession with mystical concepts that he didn't have a full grasp of is much more indicative of a college undergrad than an established professor, but this was precisely his appeal. There's a lot more life in Bloom than in more insightful critics.

He was caddish to women. For shame!

>>25113374
I like how he gave great credit and thanks to Northrop Frye and then later took it back. My mother was a 'Frye Girl' at U of T and we all suffered for it.

>>25113416
Grown ups no longer post, and the board it's filled with teens who can't understand shakespeare.
Bloom was always based af, and always will be.

>>25116251
Bloom didn't say anything worthwhile about Shakespeare that wasn't already said by his critical forbears, chiefly Johnson and Coleridge. I really can't think of anything sadder than someone's appreciation of Shakespeare being inextricably bound up with Bloom.

>>25113447
> veneer
> erudition
> dilettantes
you're so smart

>>25113416
It’s all seething poopjeets.

They weren’t able to shit out a worthwhile book for all their history and when Bloom correctly points this out they lose their minds.

>>25113447
>>25116418
Saar

>>25116579
Requiring a group of people to blame for the increase of Bloom-hate, then ransacking your mind for such a group and only being able to find pajeets, gives rather pitiful evidence of a low iq.