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From Kabbalah and Criticism, by Harold Bloom

INFLUENCE

"'Influence' is an ambivalent word to use in any discourse about literature, for 'influence' is as complex a trope as language affords."

From The Necessity of Misreading

Clerihew for the Sharp Point of the Prick

HAROLD BLOOM

The pervasive gloom
Of Harold Bloom
Presumably is mitigated
By the bores he's ventilated.

A Caricature

Pedantic Clerihew

HAROLD BLOOM

Not what, but whom
Should Harold Bloom
Blame for his students disdain for the book?
He might find a mirror, and take a good look.

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From Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, edited by Harold Bloom

AND MUCH

"And much I grieved to think how power & will
In opposition rule our mortal day --"

From The Triumph of Life, by Percy Bysshe Shelley