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Series Introduction by Harold Bloom
the great creators called “cutting contests,” from Louis Armstrong and
Duke Ellington on to the emergence of Charlie Parker’s Bop or revisionist
jazz.
A literary theme, however authentic, would come to nothing
without rhetorical eloquence or mastery of metaphor. But to experience
the study of the common places of invention is an apt training in
the apprehension of aesthetic value in poetry and in prose.
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