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Harry Potter, now the hero of so many millions of children and adults, is raised by dreadful Muggle relatives after his sorcerer parents are murdered by the wicked Voldemort, a wizard gone trollish and, finally, post-human.
Jul 11, 2000 · Yes. By Harold Bloom, a professor at Yale. His most recent book is "How to Read and Why" (Scribner, 2000). aking arms against Harry Potter, at this moment, is to emulate Hamlet taking arms...
Sep 6, 2016 · Harold Bloom talks about his latest book, "How to Read and Why," popular fiction, Harry Potter, the idea of individual genius and the trouble with the internet.
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- Manufacturing Intellect
Nov 4, 2023 · In this opinion piece by renowned late literary critic Harold Bloom, we see him levy the following charge against Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: I went to the Yale bookstore and bought and read a copy of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
Harold Bloom is a cantankerous, self-regarding old bore. He is neither the most interesting nor the most intelligent literary critic of recent decades--and far, far from the most interesting, in fact. I'm not saying Harry Potter is "great literature," but I'm not terribly inclined to think it sucks just because Harold Bloom told me so.
Interview from 2003.
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- Henry Clavis
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Jul 16, 2003 · In the 1990s, after publishing his book The Western Canon, Bloom found himself facing off against literary feminists and multiculturalists. Most recently, Bloom incensed thousands of Harry...
