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Stephen King (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) QUOTES

Stephen King (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) QUOTES

1 " My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions. "

― Harold Bloom , Stephen King (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

2 " Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading...the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education. "

― Harold Bloom , Stephen King (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

3 " I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he...Art unfortunately is rarely the fruit of earnestness, and King will be remembered as a sociological phenomenon, an image of the death of the Literate Reader. "

― Harold Bloom , Stephen King (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)