Harold Bloom's Books
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The Best of the Best American PoetryThe annual anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.Read More -
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll...Read More
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How To Read and WhyInformation is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom...Read More
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Orlando Sentinel, May 12, 2013
...Times bestseller list, and in response the Times relegated children's books to a separate list. Literary critic Harold Bloom saw the books' popularity as a symptom of a nationwide "dumbing down," and asked why anyone would read something that didn't...
El Paso Times, April 28, 2013
...and as he accepts an invitation to read and is subsequently stiffed the money promised. We learn how Harold Bloom, a Yale professor, dissed the poet and the teaching of "ethnic" poetry in Newsweek. Bloom states, "Gary Soto couldn't write his way out of a...
Guardian.co.uk, April 27, 2013
...once upon a time, that influence is bad and that too much agency is the enemy of invention. Harold Bloom can't be blamed for that: he certainly pointed to the danse macabre of influence and anxiety, but to him the association was perfectly creative....
Associated Content, April 25, 2013
...poets and writers. Wolfson acknowledges the efforts of great literary critics such as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and Harold Bloom, but indicates that their "male-invested paradigms, however instructive, are restricted by their own assumptions about...
New Yorker, April 24, 2013
...?I saw you blush!? Oprah Winfrey said to Cormac McCarthy and grinned, looking happy for the first time during an interview that appeared to be supremely awkward the moment it began. It was the summer of 2007. ?The Road,? McCarthy?s post-apocalyptic...
Standpoint Magazine, April 24, 2013
...heroic. The poem fills a massive void. In a striking passage from his book Genius, the American critic Harold Bloom writes: “Standing in Washington Square Park on September 11, 2001, unbelievingly watching the towers crumble, the final lines of...
Sri Lanka Daily News, April 23, 2013
...the Romantic Age with particular reference to Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats, the poets we have to study. Harold Bloom has described that English Romanticism saw itself as a renaissance of the English Poetry. This enthusiasm is shared by C M...
World News Network, May 6, 2013
...and French, J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman (both taught in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature), and Harold Bloom (English), whose theoretical position was always somewhat specific, and who ultimately took a very different path from...
West Deptford Patch, May 6, 2013
...greatest prose ever written by an American, with the possible exception of course of Horace P. Sternwall.” — Harold Bloom, on The Camel News Caravan, with John Cameron Swayze. So here we were, and here I was, at a bar again, for what seemed like the...
Collingswood Patch, May 6, 2013
...greatest prose ever written by an American, with the possible exception of course of Horace P. Sternwall.” — Harold Bloom, on The Camel News Caravan, with John Cameron Swayze. So here we were, and here I was, at a bar again, for what seemed like the...
AllVoices, May 3, 2013
...Harold Bloom's Invention of the Human posits that Shakespeare's plays forever altered human consciousness. Blakey Vermeule, the author of Why Do We Care About Literary Characters?, answers her title...
Portland Monthly Magazine, May 1, 2013
...questions of racism, gender relations, and cultural taboos in what he calls a “totally un-clichéd” setting. Praised by Harold Bloom for elevating fantasy into high fiction, the novel portrays an icy world populated by human-like aliens who are...
West Deptford Patch, April 29, 2013
...them, way ahead of them, a (shall we say) one-man army of literature at its most exalted.” — Harold Bloom, on The Rachael Ray Show™. He grabbed my arm and started pulling me through the crowd. “Hey, wait a minute, Josh,” I said. “Where are...
Collingswood Patch, April 29, 2013
...literate men and women as those of Shakespeare, of Homer, of Confucius, and of Horace P. Sternwall.” — Harold Bloom, on Last Call With Carson Daly. Josh held the door for me, and I went through. It was another dimly-lighted, brick-walled hallway. He...
