Mr. Fred V. Bernard has dedicated his life to the study of literature,specifically Elizabethan Literature, which has led him to write this book.He taught literature for 34 years at Wayne State University,The University of Michigan, and Aquinas College. Writers who adopt the structural method revealed in my study produceworks so astonishing “because of our symmetrical additions” that they makealmost every other critical effort appear to be the work of someone asleep.The symmetrical additions produce brilliant actions that simply make usgape in astonishment, and those actions refine their characters to make usalmost gasp. The effect is an entirely new poem, play, and novel, undreamtof in our philosophies.
With this I wish you good reading. See what exposesthe human soul in Beowulf, what opens closed hearts in The Merchant, whatexposes Horatio as the falsest of false friends, what shows Ishmael’s voyage asone of unbelievable love, what shows James’s virtual tunneling his way deepinto American atrocities against American blacks, and what shows us theatrocities of Irish Priests and Fathers against Irish sons and daughters. Findsomething astonishing upon every page.