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Bloom, in his third of six Charles Eliot Norton lectures, said that Shakespeare portrayed characters like Hamlet, Lear and Falstaff so realistically that he forever altered the expectations of readers and play audiences...
Bloom, who has been appointed Norton Professor of Poetry for this school year, lectured before an audience of more than 800 people in a packedSanders Theater. His speech was quick and oftendifficult to understand...
...opening is a reminder of the enduring roles of British tradition, of the monarchy and of the two houses of Parliament. All contribute to an unwritten constitution etched in customs and laws but not contained in a single document. The constitution has evolved in this way, says Historian Philip Norton, because, since the Norman invasion in 1066, there has been no point at which the system "has been completely swept away, allowing those in power to sit down and create from first principles a new and clearly delineated form of government...
...Norton; 318 pages...
...improved, the Norton Anthology of Pretentious Literature contains twice as much angst and symbolism as the previous edition. More than 1,000 pages of authors overreaching themselves in the quest for metaphysical absolutes: Beckett, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, Doeblin, Ashbury, Joyce and many other favorites of the cafe society...