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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...
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  • Drafts". Slate. Bloom, Harold (2001). How to Read and Why. New York City: Simon and Schuster. p. 254. ISBN 978-0684859071. Bloom, Harold (September 24,...
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  • characters of modern literature, likened to a "Captain Ahab of the desert." Harold Bloom described him as "short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in...
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    Jane's Austen's Mansfield Park edited by Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House, 1987 pages 125–126 Bloom, Harold, "Introduction", pages 1–6 from Jane Austen's...
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  • 2003 volume of criticism of Rushdie's career, the influential critic Harold Bloom named The Satanic Verses "Rushdie's largest aesthetic achievement". Timothy...
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    original on August 20, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2020. Bloom, Harold (June 15, 2009). "Harold Bloom on Blood Meridian". A.V. Club. Archived from the original...
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    p. 11. Bloom, Harold (1959). Shelley's Mythmaking, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, p. 9. Bloom (1959), Chapter 3. Bloom, Harold (1985)...
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  • The Western Canon (category Books by Harold Bloom)
    critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon. Bloom argues...
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  • Harold Jack Bloom (April 26, 1924 – August 27, 1999) was an American television producer and screenwriter who scored a notable hit with his first major...
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    sterility". The critic Harold Bloom revived bardolatry in his 1998 book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, in which Bloom provides an analysis of...
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  • Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1982 Bloom, Harold. Bloom's Critical Interpretations: Edited and with an Introduction by Harold Bloom: "Gabriel García Márquez's...
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    and Harold Bloom of Yale University have endorsed the view of Shakespeare having revised the tragedy at least once during his lifetime. As Bloom indicates:...
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  • Anxiety of Influence is a concept in literary criticism articulated by Harold Bloom in 1973, in his book, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. It...
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    on to do a Ph.D. on the romantic poetry of John Keats supervised by Harold Bloom at Yale University, graduating in 1978. Before becoming a food science...
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    Wentworth Higginson. "I'm Nobody!" is one of Dickinson's most popular poems, Harold Bloom writes, because it addresses “a universal feeling of being on the outside...
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  • Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (category Books by Harold Bloom)
    of the works of Shakespeare published in 1998 by literary critic Harold Bloom. Bloom provides an analysis of each of Shakespeare's 38 plays, 24 of which...
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    critics (including Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Tennessee Williams, and Harold Bloom). Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio to Clarence A. Crane and Grace...
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    California Press, 2003: 147. ISBN 0-520-21804-3 Anna Priddy and Harold Bloom. 2008. Bloom's How to Write about Emily Dickinson. Infobase Publishing. pp....
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    Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and...
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  • screens and situations every few pages". In contrast, literary critic Harold Bloom did not count himself among the admirers of No Country for Old Men, stating...
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    (1968) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), which have been described by Harold Bloom as her masterpieces. For the latter volume, Le Guin won both the Hugo...
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  • Dark humor in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". In Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby, eds., Dark Humor. Infobase Publishing. Horberry, Roger...
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    York: Collier, 1962. Bloom, Harold. "Introduction" in Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase, 2010. Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company...
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  • composed at the beginning of the 17th century. In How to Read and Why Harold Bloom called it "the greatest anonymous lyric in the [English] language." The...
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    ISBN 978-1-247-96345-7. Alexander Welsh, "Opening and Closing Les Misérables", in Harold Bloom, ed., Victor Hugo: Modern Critical Views (NY: Chelsea House, 1988), 155;...
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    second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty. Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along...
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  • Shoshana Felman, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, and Harold Bloom. This group came to be known as the Yale School and was especially influential...
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  • second among science fiction novels, after Dune, and literary critic Harold Bloom wrote, "Le Guin, more than Tolkien, has raised fantasy into high literature...
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    of suspension, highlighting the theme of continuation. Others, like Harold Bloom, have emphasized the "exhausted landscape", the completion, the finality...
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  • The Flight to Lucifer (category Books by Harold Bloom)
    Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy is a 1979 fantasy novel by American critic Harold Bloom, inspired by his reading of David Lindsay's fantasy novel A Voyage to...
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