I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist. (Harold Bloom)

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Harold Bloom

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