Harold Bloom

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July 30, 1930 in New York City, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Bloom is a literary critic, and currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.

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Books by Harold Bloom

Average rating: 4.00 · 24,589 ratings · 2,097 reviews · 769 distinct works

	Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle by Harold Bloom (Editor), Terry Southern (Contributor), David H. Goldsmith (Contributor) 4.27 avg rating — 5,688 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Shakespeare:The Invention of the Human 4.02 avg rating — 1,074 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages 3.85 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 1994 — 14 editions	My rating:
	How to Read and Why 3.55 avg rating — 810 ratings — published 2000 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry 3.81 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 1973 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds 3.84 avg rating — 382 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 4.13 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	To Kill a Mockingbird 4.40 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost 4.24 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried 4.08 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Harold Bloom

Bloom's Guides (11 books)
by Harold Bloom

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Quotes by Harold Bloom

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
― Harold Bloom

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“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.”
― Harold Bloom

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“Real reading is a lonely activity.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

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