Word: miltonic
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Bloom does not really expect his Common Readers to master 850 or so writers. He wants them to pay close attention to the 26 discussed in the bulk of his book: Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers...
Bloom's view of literature as a ceaseless agon between challengers and titleholders is interesting and, in some instances, true. Virgil obviously had an eye on Homer when he set out to write The Aeneid, just as Dante and Milton had Virgil in their sights when they embarked upon The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost. But Bloom cannot prove, on aesthetic or any other grounds, that all the writers he deems great shared the motives he ascribes to them. By the time he gets to a discussion of Emily Dickinson's poetry, he has grown so vexed at the absence...
Only about a third of the 80 members of the Harvard Club of Quincy--which also includes the Milton, Weymouth, and Braintree areas--is under 40, according to President Barryl. Ambroseno...
Carnesale has replaced former Provost Jerry R. Green's print of Old Harvard Yard with a vivid oil painting by Milton Avery. Fresh green plants hang in the windows of his Massachusetts Hall enclave, and three pine boxes bearing the words "In," "Out" and "Too Hard," sit awaiting the white-haired administrator's papers...
Similar feelings of disgust with the media are common not only among students but also with the local public Victoria Russell '66, a physician from Milton who returned to the U.S. Saturday after spending six weeks in France, says she appreciated her distance from the events...