American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)
For the screenwriter, see Harold Jack Bloom.
Harold Bloom
Bloom in 1986
Born
(1930-07-11)July 11, 1930 New York City, U.S.
Died
October 14, 2019(2019-10-14) (aged 89) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation
Literary critic
writer
professor
Education
Cornell University (BA) Pembroke College, Cambridge Yale University (MA, PhD)
Literary movement
Aestheticism, Romanticism
Years active
1955–2019
Spouse
Jeanne Gould
(m. 1958)
Children
2
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University.[1] In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world".[2] After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books,[3] including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm.[4][5] Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.[6]
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "School of Resentment" (which included multiculturalism, feminism, Marxism, and other ideologies).[7][8] He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.
^"Faculty – English". Yale University. Archived from the original on March 22, 2019. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
^"Harold Bloom". Oxford Bibliographies. Archived from the original on October 19, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
^Miller, Mary Alice. "How Harold Bloom Selected His Top 12 American Authors". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on July 12, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
^Romano, Carlin (April 24, 2011). "Harold Bloom by the Numbers – The Chronicle Review". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on April 9, 2019. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
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^"APS Member History". American Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on December 20, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
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^Redfield, Marc (2003). "Literature, Incorporated". In Herman, Peter C. (ed.). Historicizing Theory. New York City: SUNY Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-7914-5962-1.
HaroldBloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom...
characters of modern literature, likened to a "Captain Ahab of the desert." HaroldBloom described him as "short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in...
Drafts". Slate. Bloom, Harold (2001). How to Read and Why. New York City: Simon and Schuster. p. 254. ISBN 978-0684859071. Bloom, Harold (September 24,...
sterility". The critic HaroldBloom revived bardolatry in his 1998 book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, in which Bloom provides an analysis of...
Jane's Austen's Mansfield Park edited by HaroldBloom, New York: Chelsea House, 1987 pages 125–126 Bloom, Harold, "Introduction", pages 1–6 from Jane Austen's...
p. 11. Bloom, Harold (1959). Shelley's Mythmaking, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, p. 9. Bloom (1959), Chapter 3. Bloom, Harold (1985)...
original on August 20, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2020. Bloom, Harold (June 15, 2009). "HaroldBloom on Blood Meridian". A.V. Club. Archived from the original...
on to do a Ph.D. on the romantic poetry of John Keats supervised by HaroldBloom at Yale University, graduating in 1978. Before becoming a food science...
critic HaroldBloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon. Bloom argues...
Harold Jack Bloom (April 26, 1924 – August 27, 1999) was an American television producer and screenwriter who scored a notable hit with his first major...
2003 volume of criticism of Rushdie's career, the influential critic HaroldBloom named The Satanic Verses "Rushdie's largest aesthetic achievement". Timothy...
and HaroldBloom of Yale University have endorsed the view of Shakespeare having revised the tragedy at least once during his lifetime. As Bloom indicates:...
Anxiety of Influence is a concept in literary criticism articulated by HaroldBloom in 1973, in his book, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. It...
Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic HaroldBloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and...
critics (including Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Tennessee Williams, and HaroldBloom). Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio to Clarence A. Crane and Grace...
Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1982 Bloom, Harold. Bloom's Critical Interpretations: Edited and with an Introduction by HaroldBloom: "Gabriel García Márquez's...
California Press, 2003: 147. ISBN 0-520-21804-3 Anna Priddy and HaroldBloom. 2008. Bloom's How to Write about Emily Dickinson. Infobase Publishing. pp....
York: Collier, 1962. Bloom, Harold. "Introduction" in Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Ed. HaroldBloom. New York: Infobase, 2010. Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company...
second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty. HaroldBloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along...
second among science fiction novels, after Dune, and literary critic HaroldBloom wrote, "Le Guin, more than Tolkien, has raised fantasy into high literature...
Shoshana Felman, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, and HaroldBloom. This group came to be known as the Yale School and was especially influential...
factors such as political motivation and pressure to conform. The critic HaroldBloom listed The Labyrinth of Solitude as one of the artistic works that have...
Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy is a 1979 fantasy novel by American critic HaroldBloom, inspired by his reading of David Lindsay's fantasy novel A Voyage to...
Shelley, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press Bloom, Harold (1987), "Introduction", in HaroldBloom (ed.), Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country...
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