bardolatry

When I come upon essays like this one, ostensibly defending Shakespeare from all of his many supposed detractors, I also come as close as I ever do to feeling sympathy for the academic critics who have rejected "bardolatry" and used Shakespeare as one more opportunity to "depreciate the merely literary" (Sven Birkerts) and politicize literary study to advance their own agendas.

Canonical Writers 2008

If Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is a catechism of bardolatry, then this is the holy book, no?

Again with the Bard M-mv 2005

I rather fancy the image of Bloom whose essays and books about Shakespeare are the catechism of bardolatry, a secular religion with a passionate following as a blend of Quixote and Lancelot.

Archive 2007-10-01 M-mv 2007

I rather fancy the image of Bloom whose essays and books about Shakespeare are the catechism of bardolatry, a secular religion with a passionate following as a blend of Quixote and Lancelot.

From the archives: 11.30.2003 M-mv 2007

Obviously, too, the nature of a family-centered learning project as opposed to a more conventional learning environment allows for many, many everyday conversations that are colored by bardolatry.

Shakespeare. Yes, again. And again. M-mv 2006

I guess you could call it a catechism of bardolatry.

Archive 2006-01-01 M-mv 2006

I guess you could call it a catechism of bardolatry.

Improbable fiction M-mv 2006

Obviously, too, the nature of a family-centered learning project as opposed to a more conventional learning environment allows for many, many everyday conversations that are colored by bardolatry.

Archive 2006-09-01 M-mv 2006

I guess you could call it a catechism of bardolatry.

10.03 M-mv 2003

I guess you could call it a catechism of bardolatry.

Archive 2003-11-01 M-mv 2003