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Also known as Harold Irving Bloom

American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)

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Born
11 July 1930
Died
14 October 2019
Works
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Origin
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Active from
1955-05-23
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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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  • 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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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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