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Harold Bloom
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American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 11 July 1930
- Died
- 14 October 2019
- Works
- 2327
Top works
- Kabbala
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Mont Blanc
- Sophocles
- Katherine Anne Porter
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1955-05-23
Discography
- Luka Bloom1988
- Riverside1990
- The Acoustic Motorbike1992
- Turf1994
- Salty Heaven1999
- Keeper of the Flame2000
- Between the Mountain and the Moon2001
- Before Sleep Comes2003
- Innocence2005
- Innocence2006
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 204
- Total plays
- 4,751
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. He was born in New York City, earned his B.A. at Cornell, received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1955, and has been a member of the Yale faculty ever since. He is the author of many books, including Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human , Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry <a href="https://www
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,300x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,412x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,874x
- TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions
· 2013 · cited 11,126x
- Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks
· 2012 · cited 10,915x
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Quotes
- “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.”
- “Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.”
- “Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.”
- “Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.”
- “The outward limit of human achievement.”
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Key facts
- 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 ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 )
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Harold Bloom, literary critic, author, teacher at Yale.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of birth
- 1930-07-11
- date of death
- 2019-10-14
- name in native language
- Harold Bloom
- Commons category
- Harold Bloom
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
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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". 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 anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
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, and Marxism). He was educated at Yale, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.