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Aug 8, 2024 · Harold Bloom was a renowned literary critic who passed away in 2019. An avid reader, Bloom claimed to compulsively read and reread every book he stumbled upon and willfully transfigured that literati lifestyle into a writing career that spanned over 50 books published in 60 years.
Aug 15, 2024 · Harold Bloom’s essay on poetry and death provides a compelling exploration of how poetry confronts one of the most profound aspects of human existence. His insights into the interplay between...
Aug 12, 2024 · Why does Harold Bloom consider Isabel Allende a "bad writer"? Who narrates The Book of J and what is their role? How does their portrayal influence the narrative's persuasive force?
Harold Bloom is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel.
Aug 12, 2024 · But The Anxiety of Influence, in contrast to some of Bloom's earlier books, contains very few detailed readings, and Bloom's considerable erudition is not especially in evidence.
Jun 6, 2024 · I sometimes have a strange vision, almost dithyrambic, of the late literary critic Harold Bloom descending through the lonely air of Silicon Valley. He would have hated it there, having called the internet the great grey ocean into which we were all falling like lemmings.
Dec 3, 2023 · Harold Jack Bloom (April 26, 1924 August 27, 1999) was a television producer and screenwriter who scored a notable hit with his first major screenplay to the classic Anthony Mann Western The Naked Spur in 1953, earning an Oscar nomination in the process.
Aug 12, 2024 · For Harold Bloom's latest volume, The Breaking of the Vessels, represents as Agon does (his other production for this year) his drive for originality in its decline.
Nov 4, 2023 · In this opinion piece by renowned late literary critic Harold Bloom, we see him levy the following charge against Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: I went to the Yale bookstore and bought and read a copy of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
Jul 20, 2024 · This book offers a representative selection of the best criticism so far devoted to the writings of the Argentine master, Jorge Luis Borges. It begins with the editor's introduction, originally published in 1969, but presenting a view of both the strength and limitations of Borges' achievement that still seems valid today.
