Harold Bloom
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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
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- 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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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.
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