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Then there were the bigger-than-life moments in dealing with writers who are legends in the making. Harold Bloom, fresh from his widely praised rumination on Shakespeare, lent us his magisterial tone for the essay on Billy Graham--a subject Bloom is familiar with from his close study of American religion. He was hardly the distant don, with his infectiously warm phone manner, addressing everyone as "my dear" while dropping invitations...
...that the project's done, we hope to drop in for tea with Professor Bloom...
...Harold Bloom, author of The American Religion, most recently published Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
...hope is to break the mold," she said. "Our very presence is a revolutionary step to a new age. We will change the world, be rebellious, improper and just a little rude. The nature of this flower is to bloom. We are the revolutionary petunias...
...thesis and rejection from the GSAS, Ashbery returned to Cambridge in 1989 as Norton Professor of Poetry, a position he retained for a year. The Norton professorship is one of the country's most prominent guest lectureships: Ashbery was following in the footsteps of such literary luminaries as Harold Bloom, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Robert Frost and Thornton Wilder, as well as fellow graduates like Eliot and cummings...