*A Prophet is not without Honor except in his own Country: Bloomin' Shame!

Bloom cancels class due to illness

By Lauren Rosenthal
Staff Reporter
Published Monday, January 11, 2010
The Yale Daily News

Due to illness, professor Harold Bloom GRD ’56 will not teach the two classes he was scheduled to offer this coming semester.
English professor Leslie Brisman described Bloom as “gravely ill” in a Jan. 7 e-mail to students in Bloom’s fall seminar, “Shakespeare and the Canon: Histories, Comedies and Poems.” Bloom has been in the hospital since December.
According to Yale’s Online Course Information Web site, Bloom’s spring seminars “Shakespeare and the Canon: Tragedies and Romances” and “Four Twentieth-Century Poets: W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, D. H. Lawrence, Hart Crane” have...











































#1 By Honor 5:11a.m. on January 11, 2010

Perhaps it is inappropriate at this moment. Perhaps it is too late.

But isn't there a University award or Presidential (Woodbridge Hall) award which could be given to this great man of ideas and writing (Anxiety of Influence; Shakespeare)even at his bedside?

A prophet is not without honor EXCEPT in his own country.

This can be reversed or at least mitigated even now.

PK
M.Div,'80

#2 By Recent Alum 2:11p.m. on January 11, 2010

Wait, Paul Keane says something sensible that I agree with?????????? This is a first, coming from someone who reads the YDN board almost every day.

#3 By Strings 5:47p.m. on January 11, 2010

Recent Alum:

If you're near campus (which I'm not)
do your best to pull some strings. Carpe diem. Time is of the essence here.
PK
M.Div.'80





#23 By Ha! 9:10a.m. on January 11, 2010

"PK"

Bloom does not look kindly AT ALL on DIV... Just so you know.


#25 By Neither do I ! 8:49p.m. on January 14, 2010

# 23:
Haven't you caught on yet? Neither do I!
Note: Bloom lists The Book of Mormon as one of the 300 great books he includes in his Western Canon. This baffles me.

On the other hand, Bloom's impact on Western intellectual thought has been so enormous, that I repeat my appeal from another post again here:

Perhaps it is inappropriate at this moment. Perhaps it is too late.

But isn't there a University award or Presidential (Woodbridge Hall) award which could be given to this great man of ideas and writing (Anxiety of Influence; Shakespeare)even at his bedside?

A prophet is not without honor EXCEPT in his own country.

This can be reversed or at least mitigated even now.

PK
M.Div,'80