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Oct 15, 2019 · He even remarked, with an amazed smile, that he had met a baby, and that baby was 89 years his junior. He noted that he had a seminar to lead the next morning. That seminar was his last. Bloom ...
Sep 22, 2002 · September 22, 2002. Harold Bloom, October 28, 2001, New York City. Photograph by Richard Avedon. It is tempting to say that Harold Bloom is a man marooned in the wrong place and time, and that ...
Oct 14, 2019 · Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08.27 EDT. Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal The Anxiety of Influence and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him ...
Nov 5, 2019 · “Harold Bloom was the surest, deepest, most intuitive reader of literature I’ve ever known,” said Library of America President and Publisher Max Rudin. “Great imaginative works were for him sacred texts, to be grappled with and returned to again and again throughout one’s life in a spirit of discovery and transformative self-discovery.
Harold Bloom ’51 published more than 40 books on literature and religion, and was a champion of the Western canon. Bloom was born July 11, 1930, in the East Bronx. His parents were Eastern European immigrants, and Yiddish was his first language.
Oct 14, 2019 · Harold Bloom 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." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books ...
