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Shakespeare radically changed the way people understand the world and surpassed even Chaucer and the author of the Bible as a poet, Yale Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom told a packed Sanders Theater audience last night.
As 1987-'88 Norton Professor of Poetry, Bloom will give three more talks next spring under the general heading of "Poetry and Belief." Topics so far have included Dante, Homer, Vergil and the Hebrew Bible.
In the first of six lectures on "Poetry and Belief," leading literary deconstructionist Harold Bloom said the prophets of the Hebrew Bible were influenced by one another.
In 1973 Bloom wrote the seminal work, "The Anxiety of Influence," which said that all poetry is simply a rewriting of previous poetry. To Bloom, the Bible is poetry and the prophets rewrite that which came before them.
The lecture, entitled "The Hebrew Bible," dealtwith four of the authors of the Old Testament: J,Jeremiah, Job, and Jonah.