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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Allan Bloom
Born: September 14, 1930
Died: October 7, 1992 (aged 62)
Bio: Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon and Alexandre Kojève.
Known for:
- The Closing of the American Mind (1987)
- The Republic of Plato (1968)
- Shakespeare's Politics (1964)
- Love & friendship
- Shakespeare on love and friendship
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