O Xάρολντ Μπλουμ πιστεύει ότι η Έμιλυ Ντίκινσον είναι η πιο αυθεντική, ρωμαλέα, βαθιά φωνή μετά το Σαίξπηρ

O Xάρολντ Μπλουμ πιστεύει ότι η Έμιλυ Ντίκινσον είναι η πιο αυθεντική, ρωμαλέα, βαθιά φωνή μετά το Σαίξπηρ

“I think it’s the best thing I’ve written on Emily Dickinson,” he tells me. “What’s new about it, what’s really vital, is the close relationship between her and Shakespeare, who in the end is the dominant figure for her, as he should be for all of us.” The dominance of Shakespeare over all of us is not new ground for Harold, but the depth of his feeling for Dickinson is — if not new, newly burnished. He reads to me from a dense, convincing argument in The Daemon Knows and then: “After Shakespeare, she is the most original, incisive, profound thinker among all the great poets in the English language, British and America. Shakespeare writes bisexually because he writes universally,” he says. “And Dickinson has that comprehensiveness, too.