"and take short views"

Finding that I was echoing Bloom without knowing it was so terribly appropriate, given the title of the first chapter of the Anxiety of Influence, "It was a great marvel, that they were within the father without knowing him". He is a bigoted, racist and a sexist man. But he is content to be Harold Bloom - and as long as he finds no-one with a more prodigious memory who is, more than him, sunken in learning, he will remain so. Characterising those who disagree with him as the 'School of Resentment' is a very clever move on his part: he needs a whole school to counter him. Aside from this it allows him not to engage with anyone. Not that a tendency toward engagement was really his problem in the first place. Nonetheless he introduced me to Hart Crane.