Harold Bloom



Harold Bloom

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born July 30, 1930
gender male
place of birth New York City, United States
genre Nonfiction

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

books by Harold Bloom

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avg rating: 3.82 | 2268 ratings | 749 distinct works
Shakespeare: The Invention of ... Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom
avg rating 4.02 — 305 ratings — published 1998
7 editions
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The Complete Poems of Hart Cra... The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Centennial Edition)
by Hart Crane, Harold Bloom
avg rating 4.38 — 160 ratings — published 2001
5 editions
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How to Read and Why How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom
avg rating 3.53 — 186 ratings — published 2001
5 editions
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The Western Canon: The Books a... The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom
avg rating 3.71 — 157 ratings — published 1995
8 editions
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Th... The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom
avg rating 3.68 — 137 ratings — published 1997
2 editions
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Tim O'Brien's The Things They ... Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (Bloom's Guides)
by Harold Bloom
avg rating 4.21 — 119 ratings — published 2004
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Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundre... Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom
avg rating 3.81 — 113 ratings — published 2003
2 editions
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Ernest Hemingway's the Old Man... Ernest Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea (Bloom's Reviews Comprehensive Research & Study Guides)
by Harold Bloom
avg rating 3.68 — 72 ratings — published 1999
3 editions
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
by Harold Bloom
avg rating 3.92 — 61 ratings — published 2000
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The Book of J The Book of J (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom, David Rosenberg
avg rating 3.62 — 63 ratings — published 2004
2 editions
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quotes by Harold Bloom

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"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."
Harold Bloom
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"What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. "
Harold Bloom
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