Saving Literature with Harold Bloom
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Күн бұрынWe caught up with the towering literary critic at his home in New Haven, Ct., where he continues to teach a class at Yale by Skype. Over cookies and tea, reacting to the rapid erosion of the Humanities in a market-driven academy, Bloom warns: Without literature, “How will one think, how will one feel?” Heeding Harold’s marching orders, we head over to Yale in search of students who might still care about literature. It wasn’t easy! After wading through dozens of STEM majors, and a student who asked if “architecture counts” as literature, we have a magical encounter with two students who just might be the last two literature majors in America.
Episode#182. May 05, 2018
@friedrichwordsworth7456 6 жыл бұрын
Interviewer: It's such a pleasure to meet you Harold, and to become your friend. Bloom: Yeah, I'll sign the book.
@michaeloboyle8863 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this interviewer was tedious to say the least...mmmm….mmmm
@danasheys9300 4 жыл бұрын
Funny!!
@nickcalabrese4829 Жыл бұрын
Such a beast haha
@timooso 8 ай бұрын
@philipramsey1520 5 жыл бұрын
Harold Bloom is a genius. He has continued to explain the importance of literature in human existence in a way no other has been able to.
@leventetakacs1641 4 жыл бұрын
Without a doubt
@timooso Жыл бұрын
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@miserablebastard4266 3 жыл бұрын
His body might have failed but his mind was sharp as a tack
@martinezgerard 3 жыл бұрын
His conviction about the value of the gift of literature is so compelling and it is so truthful and genuine.
@brydon10 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the interview. Harold Bloom has opened my eyes to a lifetime of incredible reading.
@nicknack191 5 жыл бұрын
this video makes me laugh and feel a great deal of sadness too. i'll miss harold once he's gone.
@philipramsey1520 4 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Harold . A light has gone out. Our Falstaff has smiled upon his fingers ends. He stops somewhere waiting for us.
@orpheusness2422 Жыл бұрын
Although there are many reports from young women he taught over the years accusing him of inappropriate behavior towards them.
@philipramsey1520 Жыл бұрын
@@orpheusness2422 And not here to defend himself The dead are easy targets.
@nephos100 7 ай бұрын
@@orpheusness2422 The maggots want to feed off the carcass.
@dl5272 4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating that he said he was in contact with Cormac McCarthy... Cormac has said on other occasions that he doesn't keep the company of literary types, just scientists.
@leventetakacs1641 4 жыл бұрын
yes its unexpected but great!
@ASMRconKiki 5 жыл бұрын
What wouldn’t I give to spend 5 minutes with this man and talk about Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Rabelais and Dostoievskij...
@ivanrazdrokinvar8275 4 жыл бұрын
Uno te encuentra Kiki en los lugares menos esperados
@amywas1 2 жыл бұрын
What would I give to spend 5 minutes talking to anyone about the above authors. No, apparently there is something really important on Netflix and I shall just have to find a quiet place and read another book.
@mrchiltonsenglish 4 жыл бұрын
You'll be missed Professor Bloom. Thankful for your books and insight over the years, as well as your shining example of erudition, scholarship, and wide reading. "Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" Hamlet, 5.2
@SevenFootPelican Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I was surprised to be more pleased by the second part of this video. John Bredin's questions to the students. His questions were profound and thought-provoking, for sure.
@babydrysdale 2 жыл бұрын
What a hero. He will always be missed
@mirandac8712 5 жыл бұрын
Bloom is clearly overwhelmed by his interviewer's genius. The professor is understandably profusive in his thanks that, at last, he's been given the opportunity to express himself. As far as the two women, their acute insight, pointed intuition, and -- above all -- their scathing satire should be essential viewing for odd-numbered households in Tenafly.
@havefunbesafe 4 жыл бұрын
Both the Roses and the Man at the table are fully in Bloom. RIP man and flower.
@0987977 3 жыл бұрын
This is what we need, indeed, this is what I need.
@Wrz2e 3 жыл бұрын
Professor: "Okay today we're going to do some quiet contemplation of poetry." Me: 18:52
@kevinyee9550 6 жыл бұрын
Great interview, Bloom is a treasure and I hope that people carry on his spirited love of literature. Also, somebody please get him a MOOC or something, it would be great to get him teaching a course to a wider audience.
@breadvanwinkle9573 5 жыл бұрын
Like 10 years ago there was a full set of lectures from his poetry survey course at Yale on iTunes, they’ve long since been taken down :( I’d give anything for the files
@edgardoibarra5955 6 жыл бұрын
Very interesting interview with Bloom!
@Ukedc259 5 ай бұрын
What a giant he was. Marvellous.
@victortoso 4 жыл бұрын
This needed to be transcribed: "Many years ago I knew a wonderful man in London; a solicitor by profession but a great humanist and a man of letters, Owen Barfield. We were at lunch one day and he startled me by saying, 'You know, Harold, sometimes when I read Shakespeare, I can be embarrassed because I have the sense that what I like to think are my own emotions were originally his thoughts.' It could not be said better than that. I envy the late Barfield for saying that. That's what I'm always trying to say. But I have never said it that well." kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fKmVfNmlnqmonH0.html Thanks for this.
@salmanhyder1655 2 жыл бұрын
The starting remark was hilarious !
@adokapo 10 ай бұрын
He was very sharp even in those last months of his life.
@science212 2 жыл бұрын
Harold Bloom, Bruno Snell, Frank Kermode, Harold Goddard, etc. Good professors.
@JeffRebornNow Жыл бұрын
Bloom was with it to the end. My father was brilliant but as he neared 80 he began to lose his cognitive faculties, until, at the end (86), he was quite diminished.
@francisbarrera9868 6 жыл бұрын
There are still young Aesthetes Bloom!
@hannaserrano9454 6 жыл бұрын
FYI: The photo you used for Hart Crane is actually a pic of Federico Garcia Lorca.
@danieldelarocha1731 6 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@user-vf8ti4dq3d 3 жыл бұрын
and the photo for pynchon is NOT pynchon
@liamteague7478 5 жыл бұрын
Why is it a picture of Federico Garcia Lorca at 14:57, when he mentions Hart Crane?
@alanna4858 8 ай бұрын
Wonderful video ❤
@maxdominate2481 5 жыл бұрын
The interviewer found two women on campus without pink hats on! Good job,.
@user-un6sb4kn2z 5 жыл бұрын
thank you,
@alalarcon3605 6 жыл бұрын
I once gave you criticism on your interview with Nel Nodding. It appears you read it, this was a great interview. John great job! Great patience! Thanks keep up the great work.
@jonathangresham1459 3 жыл бұрын
The love of power destroys a person's trust. They need that trust to keep connection and in order to keep it the transcendence of passion should be handled with caution because we may lose that trust. We might lose it because the feeling is not mutual and then we may never love again.
@kamalpreetsingh1686 4 жыл бұрын
i think literature can't die.....thanks for this interview.....
@ucokalpigari3933 4 жыл бұрын
You aren't paying attention then. Look at the literary journals and there is a lot of empty activist posturing.
@kamalpreetsingh1686 4 жыл бұрын
@@ucokalpigari3933 i live in India and i am not aware about journals of foreign....my view is only based on history of literature because in all eras people were afraid of dying literature...
@ucokalpigari3933 4 жыл бұрын
@@kamalpreetsingh1686 I have been to India and believe you Indians have a lot of love of your history and culture. Unfortunately, the West is now infected with a hatred of itself.
@prognition970 3 жыл бұрын
I have a hard time watching anything Bloom did post 2004. Those mouth noises haunt my dreams
@ilpezkato 2 ай бұрын
Well...hope old age and decay have mercy on you.
@davidpena9513 5 жыл бұрын
That interviewer was TERRIBLE.
@opencarrydrift6308 5 жыл бұрын
David Peña I thought he was a nice guy
@rogercarroll2551 3 жыл бұрын
This is a blessing.
@maxdominate2481 5 жыл бұрын
@38:48 - The answer at least in part is "The Great Books of the Western World". Start there. Why? As Bloom said, you want to concentrate on the best that has been written.
@nicsunderlandbaker 4 ай бұрын
I want to understand the dismissal of philosophers like Kant and Aristotle as unintellectual. He really says imaginative writing will teach you how to think in a way that analytical philosophy can't.
@jackdugan5566 Ай бұрын
He’s a jew
@kreb9721 11 ай бұрын
Either what's on that plate was REALLY fucking good, or the interviewer was on the receiving end of some bombastic coital action under the table.
@charleswinokoor6023 4 жыл бұрын
Interviewer needs to stop making those affirming, moaning sound effects.
@niksx4454 3 жыл бұрын
Nothing to do about it now, but they were indeed very irritating.
@whawkins8636 Жыл бұрын
He was correct, in my humble opinion
@yagzgulay7498 2 жыл бұрын
When Bloom mentions Hart Crane why they shows Lorca hshdjdjsj?
@wallakoombay 5 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what Harold Bloom thinks of Kerouacc & Ginsberg, Dylan & Leonard Cohen?
@Post-Nut-Clairvoyance 5 жыл бұрын
Harold Bloom wrote an introductory essay to On the Road, part of his Bloom’s Critical Interpretations series. Let just say he doesn’t favor Kerouac very well.
@pip6293 4 жыл бұрын
I’d be very surprised if Bloom liked any of the Beat writers; self indulgence at its finest.
@KamaMarga320 5 жыл бұрын
The interviewer tries so hard to drag politics into the conversation with the girls it makes me cringe. This type of attitude Harold Bloom was talking about but I guess the interviewer missed his point.
@breadvanwinkle9573 5 жыл бұрын
I hope someone with any knowledge of Bloom’s work on Wallace Stevens can manage to interview the poor old man before he croaks, otherwise you just end up with the same recitation of Hoon. Do your damn homework
@elvansavkl7972 4 жыл бұрын
Do you know interviewer's name?
@michaelmoroni4044 4 жыл бұрын
"DICKENS was against thaat!" * point * * point *
@hellbooks3024 Жыл бұрын
The guy is actually noshing and then asking Bloom questions with a mouth full of food.
@PH-ih1pn Жыл бұрын
Holy is so like into reading like and educating herself like, and she likes the books she reads like and it really like inspired her like, and she like is really into grammar like and words. She is 'like' that
@milesknightestrada3286 4 жыл бұрын
For some reason, I find old man Bloom vastly more interesingnthat slightly younger, though still grey haired, Bloom. Not sure why.
@joshthesquash123 5 жыл бұрын
What does he say @3:24? "I've wasted 50 years in ranting against ________"? Does he say Cannes, as in the film festival?
@RosaAndrewJ 5 жыл бұрын
he's saying "ranting against cant" -- www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/07/ranting-against-cant/303095/
@philipramsey1520 5 жыл бұрын
This Cant is the academic teaching and dogma of literature at our Universities . He is following the example of his own hero Dr Samuel Johnston.
@OmarAli-lp7mk 6 жыл бұрын
Esther is so elegant, sophisticated and incredibly intelligent. And so is Holly. Two really beautiful and intelligent young women. :)
@childeroland2569 5 жыл бұрын
That guy with the shades really Pynchon?
@danieldelarocha1731 6 жыл бұрын
LOL. When bloom mentions Hart Crane, a photo of Federico Garcia Lorca comes up at 15:00 .... This video needs to be photo-checked
@JeffRebornNow Жыл бұрын
The first two times Holly spoke she used the word 'like" 27 times.
@papapetebreen 9 ай бұрын
Mmmm
@maxdominate2481 5 жыл бұрын
@38:55 - How did this interviewer get into Harold Bloom's house without having read Moby Dick until recently.
@karin38539 2 ай бұрын
Exactly. I was shocked to hear he was reading Bloom’s How to Read and Why only “recently” when he unabashedly told Bloom that. 18 years too late, maybe? And he didn’t look exactly like he was just born 18 years ago. Just who qualified this guy to be the interviewer?
@richarddelanet 8 ай бұрын
Is it the jacket or literature?!!!!!!
@edt8489 5 жыл бұрын
21:20 The point where the interview ends...
@fabiancalderon6729 3 жыл бұрын
Girls at 26:00 were cute
@GH-oi2jf Ай бұрын
His opening remarks were so sad. One should never regret denouncing cant. I applaud his pointed remark about fascism arising from ignorance and stupidity. Why mince words?
@maxdominate2481 5 жыл бұрын
Tupac read the Art of War on the fire escape of his mother's apartment building. In the very same interview, we have "the girls" talk about how literature was able experiencing difference people and places and end it by saying literature should reflect someone's own socio-culture economic environment. This is hamster wheel logic.
@RealSpaceHobo 4 жыл бұрын
14:55 CERTAINLY not Hart Crane!
@TepidTurtleWater 4 жыл бұрын
It's Lorca!
@friedrichwordsworth7456 6 жыл бұрын
MMMMMMmmmmmm
@idonthaveachannel223 2 жыл бұрын
Issac Walden
@gaijingamenetwork8095 5 жыл бұрын
Why does this look like it was made in the 90s? Could they not find an iPhone to shoot with?
@MxMicah1038 2 жыл бұрын
That dude’s grandma was gonna be 98? What?
@chrisbaglole5515 2 жыл бұрын
I wish the guy would shut up with the "mmmmmmmm"!!
@_illustrate_ 4 ай бұрын
17:35
@light1908 3 ай бұрын
Listening to Professor Bloom is intellectually stimulating while at the same time auditorily infuriating as someone who suffers from misophonia. For the love of everything holy edit out the mouth sounds that occur between almost every few words! Hell, send me the audio file and I’ll do it myself for free!
@karin38539 2 ай бұрын
Playing the video at a higher speed may help.
@euphegenia 8 ай бұрын
24:00 Bloom would have abhorred this young woman’s use of “like”.
@danasheys9300 4 жыл бұрын
Interviewer is a weirdo
@markw6031 4 жыл бұрын
Bloom looks so different in old age. Is that really him? I almost don't believe it is.
@andrewribeiro2464 2 жыл бұрын
The interviewer's moaning is too much.
@theonebegotten 14 күн бұрын
he seemed very isolated to have that accent. too bad he didn't grow up around new Yorkers
@nicknack191 5 жыл бұрын
ALSO 16:20 IS THAT REALLY THE MAN HIMSELF
@user-un6sb4kn2z 5 жыл бұрын
No, it's not Pynchon
@GizmoProfit 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, no. Made me laugh out loud. For what it's worth, National Enquirer got a fairly recent picture of him with his son, looking very old and frail. Holding a cane, etc. I'm glad there's not too many photographs. His best books (of which I'm in agreement with Bloom here) were all that matter, and, boy, do they matter...
@joebeamish Жыл бұрын
Libra is the best DeLillo novel. Not Underworld.
@notnotness4765 5 жыл бұрын
I bwt ghat view
@ESteen0815 Жыл бұрын
Can’t get on board with his politics, but I love his passion for great literature.
@rellman85 3 жыл бұрын
I do not care for this interviewer.
@fe12rrps 5 жыл бұрын
The interviewer seems to be a hedonist. Professor Bloom plumbs the depths of truth while the interviewer really enjoys eating cookies.
@hvltg3753 5 жыл бұрын
Gyrates around is redundant.
@fe12rrps 5 жыл бұрын
H!VLTG 3 good catch.
@adokapo 10 ай бұрын
Mmmmm….
@spurious 5 жыл бұрын
Bloom's contributions exempted, this is a painfully pretentious video
@elvansavkl7972 4 жыл бұрын
These girs are readers but howcome they still speak soo badly??.
@mbombaby Жыл бұрын
Why does everything have to be political and why is everything about race? Great literature is just great. This is where they lose me. But I adore Harold loom.
@CruderQuotient1 2 жыл бұрын
I respect Bloom, even if that opening comment was a turn off. Say what you want about Trump but he was against the marxists who've been eating away at our culture for decades. Considering Bloom warned about the same marxists, the "School of Resentment" as he called them, all the way back in the 1994, you think he's have a more nuanced opinion.
@mikhailbakunin4776 2 жыл бұрын
Lol, that's exactly how fascism takes over. Because people have nuanced opinions about them and are just pathologicaly afraid of Communism. That being said; Trump is not a fascist he is just a greedy USA capitalist but so is Biden and Obama and every other USA politician.
@nephos100 7 ай бұрын
Politics is not his fore. He swallowed the Lefty media's portrayal of Trump. But in literary criticism I am nourished by Bloom.
@liper13 5 жыл бұрын
This video was a great representation for what's wrong with our educational system and it's group-think politicization of EVERYTHING. If the idea is to promote reading and literature, how does it help to mock and denigrate half the country with anti-Trump and anti-Fox News comments? These elites are so intellectually isolated and naive that they are completely oblivious to how divisive they are. I came here to hear open minded people speak of literature, not bigots trying to score political points.
@Falstaff0809 5 жыл бұрын
liper13 Just because a highly educated individual disagrees with your politics doesn’t make him a bigot, snowflake. Bloom is no raving liberal. He’s just as harsh on the Left vis-a-vis it’s treatment of academia and literature
@liper13 5 жыл бұрын
@@Falstaff0809 Of course, Libtard, you couldn't or wouldn't address my point. Typical liberal coward, full of hate but not much in the way of intellectual honesty.
@neroresurrected 5 жыл бұрын
liper13 You are just another Trumptard in disguise who doesn’t want anybody mocking or pull political punches on here yet the latter half of your comment is exactly the very thing you claim to knock other people in doing. Your comment actually speaks to the very divisive state of affairs that this country is currently in at the moment. Furthermore, Harold Bloom’s opening comments in this interview are exactly on point in direct relation to the dumbing down of this society starting with the clown president in the WH.
@liper13 5 жыл бұрын
@@neroresurrected Thank you for proving my point about just how classless and uncompassionate and close-minded liberals are---you couldn't refute my point (or tolerate the viewpoints of others), so you resort to name-calling to attempt to hide your ignorance. Perfectly illustrated. Take your divisiveness elsewhere.
@neroresurrected 5 жыл бұрын
liper13 actually you made my point just by responding the way you did.
@lissadawes4243 Ай бұрын
He was in life a narcissist and even in the end he was a self absorbed smug individual who never learned anything from literature.
@davidpena9513 5 жыл бұрын
"Literature can make you feel better about yourself!" Oy vey
@hjhack 2 жыл бұрын
A brilliant man who shared so much. It is sad that he and many called Trump a tyrant when Biden, the real monster, took us to hell.
@chicago618 Жыл бұрын
Other than that pathetic and ignorant statement about Trump supporters Bloom was a strong voice for the canon. Today the dangers to the Western Canon come from the same place as in the past. From the leftwing. I suspect that’s why a lot of people who would normally have dismissed him all of a sudden think he’s so awesome all of a sudden.
@patriotcam1776 2 ай бұрын
You full of it. Maga2024.
@wcstrawberryfields8011 2 жыл бұрын
I've read all the Greats (as well as the books actually worth reading) and I'll be voting FULL ULTRA MAGA this autumn. Good Luck, Libertines!
@Ozgipsy Жыл бұрын
At the end of his life Harold could not work out who were his philosophical allies and who were his enemies. Poor old buggar.
@knpstrr 2 жыл бұрын
The frightful thing is he claims by reading literature one will have a better grasp of the world, yet he advocated for socialism an objectively worse economic system than capitalism.
@damonryan774 3 ай бұрын
TRUMP 2024!!!
@billpoole8541 3 ай бұрын
Love his decades of work on the great western literature, however, he sounds like a late night talk show host or some Hollywood actor when talking politics. Whether it was his anti-Reagan rants back in the day or the recent "Trump is a fascist" gibberish. Stick to the classics, Harold. RIP.
@aarondavid826 5 жыл бұрын
Trump is a lot of things, mostly bad, but he's not fascist. Is this hyperbole or wishful thinking?
@maxdominate2481 5 жыл бұрын
I don't think that there is anything really bad about. You might not like him, but that doesn't make him bad. As it relates to literature, being intellectually caged in a worldview formed by the suspension of disbelief seems more likely to produce a fascist or communist than a person who studied STEM. For that reason, the businessman is not likely to be a cloaked fascist or communist.
@GH-oi2jf Ай бұрын
It is not hyperbole. I realized he was a fascist wannabe the moment I heard that he wanted to delay the 2020 election. He failed to steal the election, but not for lack of trying.
@aidanmurphy8069 3 ай бұрын
For someone so pompous and witty, the Trump remark was cheap and distatestful.
@GH-oi2jf Ай бұрын
It was an important remark that should be said. Prof. Bloom, at his age, may say what he pleases and I respect him for saying that directly. Bloom stood for civilization, after all. Of course he would denounce fascism.
@aidanmurphy8069 Ай бұрын
@GH-oi2jf the "educated" are also brainwashed it seems. Pathetic
@UltimateNinjaSrb 6 жыл бұрын
He claims he's read so much (and the best that's written nonetheless)...and yet he thinks Trump is a fascist? And thinks you can't think if you don't read? What a joke this man has become...
@socialminds9894 6 жыл бұрын
Bloom like numerous others who have become incredibly successful in their respective fields is a ultracrepidarian.
@VentraleStar 6 жыл бұрын
You have to be an idiot to think an admitted illiterate like Trump makes a good president. No intellectual should support such a blatant anti-intellectual figure. Trump doesn't give a damn about art. I don't care if you are a Democrat or a Republican or whatever else. All our greater forefathers would've been shocked that such a man became the leader of the country they built.
@Doctor_Subtilis 5 жыл бұрын
Trump mirrors fascism in many ways.
@UltimateNinjaSrb 5 жыл бұрын
Paraquito Nothing you said proves he is a fascist and Trump's presidency has been successful so far (especially foreign policy), so I am assuming the forefathers would not be too opposed to him, whether he liked art or not (which is by the way not a prerequisite for being a president). >if you support him you are not an intellectual Neither are you with this logic.
@UltimateNinjaSrb 5 жыл бұрын
Clay Such as?
@drgooshgoosh2419 3 жыл бұрын
love harold bloom but his anti-trump rant was pure ignorance
@pygmalioninvenus6057 8 ай бұрын
Pretentious.
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