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Harold Bloom

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Reading Great Books in Kenya - Helen Rittelmeyer, First Things

Harold Bloom happened to be at Cornell during one of the most famous student protests of the “canon wars,” one in which black students went en masse into the various campus...

Are Writers No Longer Influenced by Classics? - Alison Flood, Guardian

Harold Bloom famously dubbed it the "anxiety of influence" (paywall): the effect which the literary canon has on writers. Less today than it did in the past, according to a mathematical...

You're Dead, Says Harold Bloom - Big Think

Celebrated literary critic Harold Bloom turns eighty-two this year and is still publishing and teaching. In his honor, I’ve compiled a list of six things he’s outlived.

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