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He died at a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 14, 2019. He was 89 years old. [7]
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, 2024 · 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.
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Sep 19, 2003 · He wrote something to the effect of, “If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King.” And he was quite right. He was not...
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...
- Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
Oct 26, 2019 · He was leading the charge to keep great literature alive: to ensure it was both read and, above all, taught in the universities, where he fretted that syllabuses might soon consist of Harry...
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Dec 23, 2019 · After long claiming that he was born in 1938, he changed it to 1936 in his best-selling diet book, “The Karl Lagerfeld Diet,” and then, years later, announced that it was in fact 1935.
