Harold Bloom quote: Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and ...

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

~ Harold Bloom ~

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