A Sea of Troubles

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Review #1

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As he was enduring the hospital stays and sleepless nights that are the fate of the very elderly, Harold Bloom recited to himself the poems he had studied and taught for some sixty years. This volume contains his final thoughts on these poems of the Western Canon. It is not, as the title might suggest, a reader’s guide to victory over the fear of death through literature. Instead, it is Bloom’s meditations on his favorite authors as they pertain to our shared mortal destiny.

No one in the twenty first century has grappled with the literary tradition as much as Bloom. Not only had he read everything, he had engaged with it; all the while fashioning his personal interpretations into a creed—albeit a religion with a membership of one.

Some of his most salient points are the rejection of historical Christianity (the incarnation was anathema to Bloom), the rejection of his birth religion of Orthodox Judaism (God has not fulfilled his end of the covenant) and the Nietzschean notion that we perceive/create reality through the tropes we inherit from poetry.

He is obsessive about these tropes and other literary allusions used by writers great and small. He goes so far as to see canonical literature as almost written by one author, continually refining what her imagination has created. He’s struck with a phenomenon he calls transumption where a later author make his work apparently antecedent to an author who influenced his text. As in his first major publication, he sees poets’ oeuvre as primarily answering questions raised by the work of their predecessors. He shares no hope in a personal afterlife but sees art as participant in something more than transient.

One caveat before reading is, while extensive selections are provided, it’s hard to do much more than accept Bloom’s interpretations unless one is already familiar with the authors. Personally, I wouldn’t read this book unless one has studied poets like Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Whitman, Crane, Tennyson, etc.

Another caveat is whether Bloom’s quest is actually a good choice for the typical reader. As I said above, Bloom knew, taught and engaged literature with an almost unparalleled zeal. But if one ends up with a highly idiosyncratic religion of one it almost suggests that one should submit one’s mind to the authority of a shared creed; if for no other reason than retaining one’s sanity.

As indicated above, nobody believed or strove harder to find salvation in literature alone. His was a fascinating quest strewn with many insights. Whether it’s the correct path is another matter. But now that Bloom has passed I do feel it was a blessing that we were left with this final reinterpretation of the canon he devoted his life to understanding.

Review #2

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Received the book yesterday and have only had time to read the introduction. What always affects me about Bloom is not so much the critical theory but the all consuming passion for the works themselves. There are some poignant moments in the introduction where he reflects on his own mortality. Can’t wait to dive into the rest of the text. There is also one more posthumous Bloom book (“The Bright Book of Life”) on its way in November

Review #3

Audiobook A Sea of Troubles by Donna Leonm

This work by Harold Bloom (probably his last – before his death, but there may be more publications) is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the influence and impact of selected literature on personal development and how the collective array of “great works” can enhance meaning and existential significance for the human Being {cap} in the face of finitude – and mortality.

Review #4

Audio A Sea of Troubles narrated by David Colacci

There may never be another literary critic as prolific, as ebullient, as sharp, and as analytical as Harold Bloom. In this, his last piece of work which he completed very shortly before he died, he turns his last, ebbing powers to the subject that seemed to be preoccupying his mind in his final years – death and the poet.

He begins with a chapter on Shakespeare and Milton, clearly Bloom’s favourite poets. In the next chapter, his turns up the microscope and isolated Milton for examination. Here, Bloom displays his own vast knowledge of the Bible when he analyses Milton’s ‘God is light’ against Hart’s ‘God is logos’, and the Geneva Bible’s “God is the Word’.

Confessing his soft spot for Robert Browning, Bloom devotes a chapter on the ‘least read poet’. Citing and studying Browning’s ‘The Heretic’s Tragedy’, Bloom concludes that Browning was a poet of the ‘Grotesque’, a word spelt with a capital ‘G’ so as to define the special genre Browning alone deserves. It is a genre of poetry that delves in all that is dark and ghastly.

This book has a sense of inevitability and gloom, ‘Evil death is out of phase; good death is timely’, and in that sombre mood, we can treasure Bloom’s last stand. We can join him in his glorification of Shelly, Byron, Keats, Frost, Crane, and the poets that have come together – or rather, gathered by Bloom to come and see him off.

Review #5

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Only covered the first few chapters however I am held captive at vastness of the work.

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