“s endless caustic asides about the rabblement of lemmings seem less like argument than some kind of nervous tic. Camille Paglia, who proudly calls Bloom her mentor and who hails”
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Harold Bloom
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 discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of an…
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culture · American critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019) · literary historian · writer · literary critic · journalist · literary theorist · university teacher · literary scholar · also Harold Bloom, Harold Irving Bloom, Bloom
Born 11 July 1930 · Died 14 October 2019 · Q345612
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2026· 4 entries
“ought to be even more a secular religion than it already is”
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“Geoffrey Hill is the strongest British poet now active”
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“Probably the most powerful living Western writer is Samuel Beckett. He”
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2019· 4 entries
Died 2019-10-14.
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“I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.”
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“Of William Shakespeare's plays.”
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“I must say these Oxfordians are very virulent and, forgive me for saying it, very crazy people indeed.”
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2017· 1 entry
Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world"
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2011· 1 entry
“I no longer have the patience to read anything by Frye”
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2010· 1 entry
Became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2003).
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"there are four living American novelists I know of who are still at work and who deserve our praise"
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“there are four living American novelists I know of who are still at work and who deserve our praise”
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Catalonia International Prize (2002).
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1997· 2 entries
Added a long preface that mostly expounded Shakespeare's debt to Ovid and Chaucer, and his agon with Christopher Marlowe, who set the stage for him by breaking free of ecclesiastical and moralizing overtones
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“s request, and that he did not stand by it. Work on Shakespeare Bloom had a deep appreciation for William Shakespeare, considering him the supreme center of the Western canon. The first edition of The Anxiety of Influence almost completely avoided Shakespeare, whom Bloom then considered barely touched by the psychological drama of anxiety. The second edition, published in 1997, added a long preface that mostly expounded Shakespeare”
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1995· 1 entry
“You want novelty? Read the classics.”
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1994· 1 entry
That Bloom's "wandering, I gather is a thing of the past
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1986· 1 entry
Bloom credited Northrop Frye as his nearest precursor
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1983· 2 entries
Bloom placed his hand on her inner thigh at a dinner arranged to discuss her writing
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"What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theol
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1967· 1 entry
Drew upon the example of Walter Jackson Bate's The Burden of the Past and The English Poet and recast in systematic psychoanalytic form Bate's historicized account of the despair 17th- and 18th-century poets felt about t
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1962).
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1959· 1 entry
Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel
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1956· 1 entry
Awarded John Addison Porter Prize (1956).
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1930· 2 entries
To Paula (née Lev) and William Bloom
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Born 1930-07-11.
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