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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.
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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...
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...
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Aug 27, 2018 · Harold Bloom is a great critic. In fact, his critique of Harry Potter is a good piece of criticism. But even Ptolemy’s offered a good astronomical model of the universe. It just happened to...
Sep 19, 2003 · I went to the Yale bookstore and bought and read a copy of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible.
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.
Jul 19, 2003 · The Harry Potter books, he writes, ''might just comprise the most visible contribution to Stoicism's re-emergence as a viable, practical philosophy offering comfort...
