>four century old book's new edition has introduction

>>7331385
>Beowulf with introduction by John Green

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>>7331385
>book has introduction by Harold Bloom
>no relation to the book; just Bloom talking about Shakespeare and referring to himself as an 'old gnostic'

>>7331396

the introduction to that Hart Crane collected poems is like that

he talks more about walt whitman in it and his own experience reading Crane as a 12 year old than he does about Crane or his poetry kek

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>>7331395

>John Green with an introduction by Beowolf

>>7331396
who is that cretin

>>7332011
eggman from >>>/r9k/

>>7331396
Harold Bloom is the sort of person whose personality would definitely be improved with a series of hard blows to the eyesocket.

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>>7331396
>>7331437
Harold Bloom is a fucking hack

>>7332033
It's just mental onanism, touting his knowledge to impress others.

>>7332033
You're missing the best chunk, just before that last paragraph

The Introduction laments, out of nowhere, that “We do not have
Cardenio
, the play Shakespeare wrote, with John Fletcher, after read-
ing Thomas Shelton’s contemporaneous translation of
Don Quixote.
Therefore we cannot know what Shakespeare thought about Cervantes,
though we can surmise his delight” (xxiv). Of course, if we haven’t read
Cervantes’ novel yet, we have to wonder who this Cardenio fellow is.