A few thoughts by Harold Bloom to contemplate:
"I accept only three criteria for greatness in imaginative literature: aesthetic splendor, cognitive power, wisdom."
"Shakespeare may well stand here for the largest benign effect of the highest literature: properly appreciated, it can heal part of the violence that is built into every society whatsoever."
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That reminds me of Fred's essay, "The Meaning of Value," the levels of which were tropic, economic, rational, moral and aesthetic.
He couldn't be more right about Shakespeare.
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