Ricardo J. Quinones is professor emeritus of literature at Claremont McKenna College and author of Dualisms: the Agons of the Modern World (University of Toronto Press).
Bloom is a critic of great capaciousness and confidence, willing to recognize and praise genius even where there might exist reason to abhor it.
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