Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Harold Bloom
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Philosophy and literary criticism
- Time of Work: About 750 -2004
- Setting: Europe, the Middle East, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Job, Yahweh, The Preacher, Plato, Homer, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Johann von Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Saint Augustine
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Western Europe or western Europeans, Learning or scholarship, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: Europe, United States, Middle East
In an early chapter in this exploration of wisdom, Harold Bloom makes a passing reference to life-threatening “medical ordeals” he has recently survived. Elsewhere he mentions having been at “the gates of death.” Although Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? is not at all an autobiography, it does seem to spring from a very personal source, out of “personal need,” as Bloom himself puts it on the opening page, “reflecting a quest for sagacity that might solace and clarify the traumas of aging, …illness, and …loss.”
The notion of loss seems especially relevant to...
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