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The Seeds That Were Silent All Burst Into Bloom

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
November 08, 2011

Is Harold Bloom’s new The Anatomy of Influence a final statement from the great critic? Very well then, says Elisa New today in Tablet Magazine, let it stand as Bloom would have it: at the end of a long path of scholarship and thought that, in reflection of its own substance, leads back to its beginning, and so on, and so on, and so on.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.