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Harold Bloom

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Bio

HAROLD BLOOM lived in New Haven and was a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, where he taught for over sixty years. Before that, he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include Possessed by Memory, The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The American Religion, and The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime. He was a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and Mexico's Alfonso Reyes International Prize. He lived in New Haven until his death on October 14, 2019, at the age of eighty-nine.

Harold Bloom Books

Ralph Waldo Emerson book cover

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems (LOA #368) book cover

Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems (LOA #368)

Ursula K. Le Guin
The Bright Book of Life book cover

The Bright Book of Life

Harold Bloom
Possessed by Memory book cover

Possessed by Memory

Harold Bloom
Macbeth book cover

Macbeth

Harold Bloom
Iago book cover

Iago

Harold Bloom
Lear book cover

Lear

Harold Bloom
Cleopatra book cover

Cleopatra

Harold Bloom
Falstaff book cover

Falstaff

Harold Bloom
The Daemon Knows book cover

The Daemon Knows

Harold Bloom
The Western Canon book cover

The Western Canon

Harold Bloom
Frankenstein book cover

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
Living with Shakespeare book cover

Living with Shakespeare

Susannah Carson
The Fourth Dimension of a Poem: and Other Essays book cover

The Fourth Dimension of a Poem: and Other Essays

M. H. Abrams
Zakhor book cover

Zakhor

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Till I End My Song book cover

Till I End My Song

Harold Bloom
Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems book cover

Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems

John Kinsella
The Best of the Best American Poetry book cover

The Best of the Best American Poetry

David Lehman
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