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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". [2]
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- Literary critic, writer, professor
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Mar 22, 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. Bloom’s first language was Yiddish, and he also learned Hebrew before English.
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Oct 14, 2019 · Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930, in the East Bronx, into an Orthodox Jewish household. He was the youngest of five children of William and Paula (Lev) Bloom, struggling immigrants from ...
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Harold Bloom once described himself as a “monster of reading.” He claimed he could read — really read — a 400-page book in a single hour. His memory was superhuman; he carried in his head ...
Jan 23, 2021 · Jan. 23, 2021. Harold Bloom’s posthumous “The Bright Book of Life” is his farewell gift to his readers — unless (and I wouldn’t put it past him) there are further 500-page Bloomian tomes ...
Oct 17, 2019 · Harold Bloom, a bestselling literary critic and a professor of English at Yale University, died Oct. 14 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was 89 and had a long and influential career in literature and religion. He published more than 40 books on literature and religion, including the influential "The Anxiety of Influence" and "The Western Canon". He was a champion of the Western canon and a friend of many Cornell faculty members.
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 New Haven, Conn ...
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