Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Literary critic of The Anxiety of Influence and The Western Canon
1930, New York City, United States — 2019, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
United States
Harold Bloom is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Literary critic of The Anxiety of Influence and The Western Canon
Bloom was one of the most influential American literary critics of his era, best known for The Anxiety of Influence (1973), which theorized how poets struggle against their predecessors, and for the best-selling The Western Canon (1994). He taught at Yale for more than half a century. He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in the Bronx and grew up speaking Yiddish.
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Literary critic of The Anxiety of Influence and The Western Canon
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
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