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Bloom really is a pretentious ass.
His academic writing is largely just self-indulgent pap with an unhealthy dose of words like "phantasmagoric" thrown in to really emphasize the aesthetic bliss he claims to get from literature. He is totally blind to any constructive discussion of literature, instead preferring to just pointlessly call works "the GREAT American novel" &c. without actually developing on that point.
Listen to one of his lectures. All he will do is talk about some undefinable element in a poem that gives him "pleasure", call himself an "old Gnostic", and slowly breath in the smell of his own farts.
He's right about the school of resentment though.
