Showing posts with label literary criticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literary criticism. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

"Almost everything now written and published and praised in the United States as verse isn't verse, let alone poetry.  It's just typing, or word processing.  As a matter of fact, it's usually just glib rhetoric or social resentment.  Just as almost everything that we now call criticism is in fact just journalism."

Whoa.

              — Harold Bloom, Paris Review interview.