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Sir Christopher Ricks’ judicious take on Harold Bloom: “of Bloom’s energies we are all both beneficiaries and victims. Beneficiaries, granted his passion, his learning, and his so giving salience to the impulse or spirit of allusion. Victims, because of his melodramatic sub-Freudian parricidal scenario, his sentimental discrediting of gratitude, and his explicit repudiation of all interest in allusion as a matter of the very words.”