![]() ![]() A larger-than-life figure in many ways, Bloom has touched both students of literature and general readers with his enthusiasm. He scatters insight with manic profligacy,” noted Adam Begley in the New York Times. “His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant. ![]() He has emerged as a defender of the canon (or generally accepted selection) of literary works as traditionally taught in Western countries, and he has been an indefatigable promoter of the idea that reading in general is a vital, creative, and even spiritual act. Almost alone among major scholars, however, Bloom has also sought to address a general readership. A longtime professor at Yale University, Bloom has written densely theoretical texts in which he marshals terminology steeped in classic literature and philosophy in order to express his ideas. ![]() “I cannot think of a major work I have not ingested,” he once told Newsweek. His award-winning book dealt with poetry, and with the relationships of poets to their predecessors, but Bloom, whose erudition is legendary, has written on many other forms of literature. With the publication of his 1973 book The Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom (born 1930) became one of the most widely read literary critics in the Englishspeaking world. ![]()
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