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Bloom invention of the human5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() It is a most fitting seat for this great critic to occupy. In another splendid appellation, Bloom is Sterling professor of the humanities at Yale University. ![]() Yes indeed, here we have the literary life de haut en bas. This happy excursus appears in The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life (Yale, £25), in a chapter entitled "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction of the Romantic Self", and is preliminary to, among numerous matters, a consideration of why the name Lucifer is not mentioned in Paradise Lost, and why Milton should have chosen not to give us in his great poem an account of Satan in his prelapsarian, luciferous state. When he teaches Ulysses, he tells us, he has to refer to its protagonist Leopold Bloom as Poldy, "since my name has been confiscated – for a time". Describing it as "splendid", he says it seems to him "the most literary of names". ![]()
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