How to Read and Why (Harold Bloom)

p25. "We read, frequently if Unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. p75. Vlysses - Tennyson " ""... and this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a •Sinking Star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." self-overhearing Revisit Don Quixote? Wordsworth: wise 2015-01-15 Hmm. I'm still far from being able to make the most of this book - p198 passinty Hamlet p205 teaches us how 'to talk to ourselves. $158. Austen: She had learned Shakespeare's most difficult lesson: to manifest sympathy towards all of her characters, even the least admirable, while detaching herself even from her favorite, Emma. and prose poetry plays don't speak to me as much as I see described here..