I return to this conversation once in a while and just want to say I love the selfie with Bloom.
@timholbrook76712 жыл бұрын
Totally appreciate Gil's approach to this very important interview with Harold. He is respectful enough to stay somewhat recessive. Not verbally stepping all over Bloom, allowing the verbal master to 'carry on'. Let Harold be Harold! Gil is, however, a very talented interviewer. He was insightful enough to let Bloom choose his own words.It's a talent indeed, who can step aside, and allow the great one to literally BE great! Harold is, of course, superb....BRAVO and RIP...
@VMSpod2 жыл бұрын
How kind of you to say! Many thanks!
@sirarthurfiggis6 ай бұрын
This is a lovely, gentle interview. I'm eager to listen to more of your work.
@VMSpod6 ай бұрын
Thanks! That's so kind of you.
@Ganymede404 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this magnificent interview. Harold Bloom is my idol and I owe so much to him, not least of which is my choosing to become a schoolteacher.
@VMSpod4 жыл бұрын
I’m awfully happy to hear it! Thank you!
@BruceScherer2 жыл бұрын
I've listened to this three times, including the introduction, on your podcast and this KZfaq post. Far from "blathering", your thoughts and observations are welcome and human. Lots of interviews exist online of the Book Fair / CSPAN / Charlie Rose range with high formality, staging, and little to no real-life context. Many of us who never had the chance to meet him get a better sense of him because of your thoughts and the time you took. Thank you.
@VMSpod2 жыл бұрын
How kind of you to say! It really was a special event for me, and I’m glad that you appreciated that. (Some people just want me to cut to the chase.)
@timholbrook76712 жыл бұрын
Gil, I think the whole point of your podcast is the so- called 'bather' that you exercise, while your getting to the point. Please carry on!.
@davidmike25273 жыл бұрын
All what I can say is respect.
@milesknightestrada32863 жыл бұрын
The interview proper: 11:55.
@GregoryDominato5 жыл бұрын
After listening to the show and considering Styron's school teacher comment and Mr. Bloom's eventual processing of this, a fitting epitaph (when it is required) came to me: Harold Bloom, a poet of a teacher.
@athenassigil58202 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful introduction and great interview. I was drawn into Bloom via his interest in Gnosticism and then from there.....all things literary. What a fascinating man and reader/appreciator of the western canon. He himself, in a way through his understanding and recitations became a living, breathing repository of everything that is Literature.
@trouble8204 жыл бұрын
I love you Harold Bloom.
@trouble8204 жыл бұрын
Wonderful interview. I have watched or listened to many interviews with him and this is one of the best. Wonderful job Gill. It is like finding a new book written by him. Very personable and human.
@philipramsey15204 жыл бұрын
Harold states he does not want deciples. That is not his choice, he has thousands. Long may they continue now Harold has gone. They stand as resistance to the "School of resentment" and as a remnant of private and academic readers who know how to read and why!
@ronkrate6093 жыл бұрын
Some of the resentment is justified. Nothing to freak out about.
@philipramsey15203 жыл бұрын
@@ronkrate609 not for me
@justininfrance2 жыл бұрын
Always fascinating. I pivot between the school of Bloom and the school of Terry Eagleton. Both brilliant and both loathing each other, both with good reason, probably. I find Bloom very old fashioned, problematic, and some of his judgements very questionable. Yet his passion is palpable and contagious, he always has the effect of making one long to read the source material. Surely the winning argument? Reading Eagleton, dazzling certainly, makes one weary of reading anything at all, particularly Eagleton. Bloom's pomposity and narcissism is a barrier, yet I think history will prove him largely right.
@mohammedchang4 жыл бұрын
I just listened to this as I just learned about Harold. Great stuff. Keep on keeping on
@chriscargile56986 жыл бұрын
I thought you did a great job with the interview. Thanks so much!
@ryanjavierortega85137 жыл бұрын
Harold Bloom is immortal, so the number doesn't much matter...
3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating to hear him say that Clarissa is his favorite novel of all time. I wouldn't have guessed that and he has never insinuated it.
@Peter-ov6xh2 жыл бұрын
The presenter is so masculine and handsome. Also, I enjoyed the podcast!
@BillyMcBride5 жыл бұрын
Love until it's done.
@marccohen13354 жыл бұрын
The university critics: "Gender and power freaks. The usual chazerai." Lol
@luke77277 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know who Bloom refers to when he speaks of Eliot's abandoned woman 'Nancy Hill' (Nancy Ell?). I see the poem Cousin Nancy, but that is all.
@philipramsey15204 жыл бұрын
He is referring to Emily Hale who he has mistaken as Nancy.
@hughmanatee76574 жыл бұрын
“Hillary is a crook.” I’m so glad he said that. He was right.
@myusername65957 жыл бұрын
i love it but you reallllllly lay it on thick that he's old