Is Yale’s English Course Really Too ‘White’?

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A petition from Yale students demands a ‘decolonized’ undergraduate curriculum for English majors, which could mean the chop for Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne.

Published Jun. 2 2016 1:00AM EDT

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Harold Bloom, one of America’s foremost literary scholars and Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale, provided a terse response when asked about the latest student protests to grip the university.

“I am too weary to comment again on this nonsense,” he wrote in an email to The Daily Beast.

Lizzie Crocker

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Is Yale’s English Course Really Too ‘White’?

A petition from Yale students demands a ‘decolonized’ undergraduate curriculum for English majors, which could mean the chop for Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne.

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Lizzie Crocker