Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom 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.
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Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Yale UniversityCornell University
- Awards
- 🏆 Catalonia International Prize
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Harold McGee
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Trending topics shown first"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 irreconci…"
"Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation."
"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."
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1930
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