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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".
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died October 14, 2019, New Haven, Connecticut) was an American literary critic known for his innovative interpretations of literary history and of the creation of literature.
Oct 14, 2019 · Harold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books that appeared not only on college syllabuses but also —...
Dec 23, 2019 · On April 21, 1980, at the Boston Marathon, the fastest men finished first, and then, at 2 hours, 31 minutes and 56 seconds — an amazing time, a world-class time — the first woman crossed the ...
Jan 23, 2021 · For those who do not know him: Harold Bloom was the formidable Yale professor whose 1973 assertion of “the anxiety of influence” — the way poetic genius has been both nurtured and...
Sep 22, 2002 · It is tempting to say that Harold Bloom is a man marooned in the wrong place and time, and that living out his late years in twenty-first-century America is what’s making him miserable.
Oct 17, 2019 · Harold Bloom ’51, a bestselling literary critic and a friend to many of Cornell’s English faculty over the years, died Oct. 14 in New Haven, Connecticut. A longtime professor of English at Yale University, Bloom was 89.
Harold Bloom GRD ’56, a Sterling Professor of English, author of over 40 books and an iconic defender of the Western canon, died on Monday at the age of 89 at a New Haven hospital. Bloom attained widespread academic recognition for his innovative interpretations of poetry.
Oct 15, 2019 · “Criticism,” observed the literary critic Harold Bloom, who has died aged 89, “starts (it has to start) with a real passion for reading.” Blessed with extraordinary gusto as a reader ...
Oct 15, 2019 · Harold Bloom, world-renowned literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, died on Oct. 14 in New Haven. He was 89 years old. Bloom was widely regarded as the most recognized literary critic in America.
Oct 15, 2019 · Harold Bloom was a rarity: a best-selling and widely known literary critic. Affectionately dubbed the "King Kong" of criticism, Bloom died Monday at the age of 89, at a hospital in...
Oct 14, 2019 · Author Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor who was a standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, has died at age 89.
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
Oct 14, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal “The Anxiety of Influence” and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died Monday at age 89.
Oct 15, 2019 · Harold Bloom, one of the most popular and controversial critics in American literature, died Monday at age eighty-nine. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the author of more than forty books, including The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry , The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages , and, most recently ...
Oct 15, 2019 · Harold Bloom, the imperious and convivial scholar and literary critic, the last colossus in terms of his ardor and prodigious memory, a self-described “tired, sad, humane old creature,” and...
Harold Bloom, (born July 11, 1930, Bronx, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 14, 2019, New Haven, Conn.), U.S. literary critic. Bloom studied at Cornell (B.A., 1951) and Yale (Ph.D., 1955) universities and began teaching at Yale in 1955.
Nov 5, 2019 · Harold Bloom was a profound interpreter of poetry, a gifted and enthralling classroom teacher, as original-minded as a scholar can be. His judgments were delivered with a plainness and candor which his precision of phrase could often make unforgettable.
Nov 12, 2019 · Harold Bloom’s The American Canon: “He is speaking directly to you about his passions” In a career encompassing more than fifty years and forty books, Harold Bloom, who died on October 14 at the age of 89, inspired a reverence for literature in generations of students and general readers alike.
Jan 8, 2024 · One of America's greatest literary critics "Harold Bloom" loved Blood Meridian. In today's video, we are going to hear from Harold Bloom and then discuss some quotes from him on Blood...
Oct 15, 2019 · Bloom died yesterday, nearly fulfilling an old vow that he would leave his last class in a body bag. Bloom’s detractors hated him for many reasons. Naomi Wolf accused him of sexual harassment.
Oct 16, 2019 · James Wood writes about the literary critic Harold Bloom, who died on Monday, at the age of eighty-nine.
May 17, 2018 · Harold Bloom. With the publication of his 1973 book The Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom (born 1930) became one of the most widely read literary critics in the Englishspeaking world.
