I appreciate you turning my tweet into real and thorough engagement with some of the poets. Vendler was great but there is a way all great critics *must* be blind to inconvenient texts.
Yes fully agree! What I think most separates her from her opponents is the idea that, as Bloom says, the only method is the self. She was presumably happy to have blind spots because she knew that was the heart of great writing in a way.
I appreciate you turning my tweet into real and thorough engagement with some of the poets. Vendler was great but there is a way all great critics *must* be blind to inconvenient texts.
Yes fully agree! What I think most separates her from her opponents is the idea that, as Bloom says, the only method is the self. She was presumably happy to have blind spots because she knew that was the heart of great writing in a way.