What is the author's tone in the nonfiction book, How to Read and Why?

Bloom's language is elevated to the most intellectual heights, and his vocabulary is sophisticated and erudite. His discussion is permeated with language from Wen philosophy and religion, from Judaism and Kabbala to Gnosticism and Messianic Christianity. Bloom also reverts to his own vocabulary about belatedness, or the fear that a writer has arrived on the scene too late to have anything to say. More than anything, Bloom uses the language of appreciation and celebration, as his descriptions of each work seek out the remarkable thing that sets the work apart and makes it beautiful and valuable. His language is not often personal, though: he typically locates a work's value in its ability to conjure a certain feeling in the reader, or in its ability to introduce the reader to parts of him or herself that might not be familiar or accessible. In this sense, the writing is prophetic, since Bloom is trying to predict the selves a reader has yet to meet, or discover in him or herself.