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Harold Bloom on Harry Potter and Stephen King. Absolutely brutal at the end there. SS : Bloom was then (2003) recovering from heart surgery, so not in his best shape (constantly drinking tea to prevent his mouth going dry from medication) Also, this was at the end of a 3 hour interview. All those mouth noises.
Jul 14, 2000 · Yes," by Harold Bloom, editorial page, July 11). I am sorry that Mr. Bloom does not approve of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, but suspect that the answer to his rhetorical question is the ...
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.
Sep 19, 2003 · Harold Bloom is a professor at Yale, a literary critic and author of "The Western Canon," (Riverhead Books, 1995). ... When you read “Harry Potter” you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
Yes. By Harold Bloom. Wall Street Journal, 7-11-2000 Taking arms against Harry Potter, at this moment, is to emulate Hamlet taking arms against a sea of troubles. By opposing the sea, you won't end it. The Harry Potter epiphenomenon will go on, doubtless for some time, as J. R. R. Tolkien did, and then wane.
Jul 18, 2007 · The Decline of Potter-Bashing. Harold Bloom, writing in The Wall Street Journal seven years ago, showed us a flash of a better approach to sneering at Harry Potter: The ultimate model for Harry ...
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". [2]
