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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".
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- Literary critic, writer, professor
- 1955–2019
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 · By Dinitia Smith. Published Oct. 14, 2019 Updated Nov. 1, 2019. Harold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books...
Harold Bloom, a Self-Mythologizing Prodigy of Literary Criticism By SAM ANDERSON DEC. 23, 2019 He submerged himself in literature — more grandly, and grandiosely, than anyone.
Oct 15, 2019 · Harold Bloom, a world-renowned literary critic and Sterling Professor of English at Yale, died on Oct. 14 at the age of 89. He was known for his influential books on poetic criticism, such as "The Anxiety of Influence" and "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages", and his generosity as a teacher and colleague.
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Oct 15, 2019 · Mark Mainz/Getty Images. 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...
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.
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