Background
BLOOM, Harold was born on July 11, 1930 in New York, United States. Son of William Bloom and Paula Lev.
(This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extens...)
This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. The perceptive interpretations of the major poems of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Beddoes, Clare, and Darley develop the themes of Romantic myth-making and the dialectical relationship between nature and imagination.For this new edition, Harold Bloom has added an introductory essay on the historical backgrounds of English Romantic poetry and an epilogue relating his book to literary trends.
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(Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own ...)
Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the individual artist. Although Bloom was never the leader of any critical "camp," his argument that all literary texts are a response to those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of deconstruction and poststructuralist literary theory in this country. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature and has sold over 17,000 copies in paperback since 1984. Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorably quotable, Bloom's book maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded--neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics. This second edition contains a new Introduction, which explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years.criticism of the past twenty years. Here, Bloom asserts that the anxiety of influence comes out of a complex act of strong misreading, a creative interpretation he calls "poetic misprision." The influence-anxiety does not so much concern the forerunner but rather is an anxiety achieved in and by the story, novel, play, poem, or essay. In other words, without Keats's reading of Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, we could not have Keats's odes and sonnets and his two Hyperions. Given the enormous attention generated by Bloom's controversial The Western Canon, this new edition is certain to find a readymade audience among the new generation of scholars, students, and layreaders interested in the Bloom cannon.
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This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals at length with the important shorter works as well, showing their complex relations both to one another and to the work of Stevens's precursors, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Emerson, and Whitman. No other book on Stevens is as ambitious or comprehensive as this one: everyone who writes on Stevens will have to take it into account. The product of twenty years of meditating, thinking, and writing about Stevens, this truly remarkable book is a brilliant extension of Bloom's theories of literary interpretation.
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(This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to S...)
This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals at length with the important shorter works as well, showing their complex relations both to one another and to the work of Stevens's precursors, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Emerson, and Whitman. No other book on Stevens is as ambitious or comprehensive as this one: everyone who writes on Stevens will have to take it into account. The product of twenty years of meditating, thinking, and writing about Stevens, this truly remarkable book is a brilliant extension of Bloom's theories of literary interpretation.
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(In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serv...)
In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems. Influence, as Bloom conceives it, means that there are no texts, but only relationships between texts. Bloom discusses British and American poets including Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Warren, Ammons and Ashbery. A full-scale reading of one poem, Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," represents this struggle between one poet and his precursors, the poem serving as a map for readers through the many versions of influence from Milton to modern poets. For the first time, in a new preface, Bloom will consider the map of misreading drawn by contemporary poets such as Ann Carson and Henri Cole. Bloom's new exploration of contemporary poetry over the last twenty years will illuminate how modern texts relate to previous texts, and contribute to the literary legacy of their predecessors.
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While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of Misreading. That unity is brilliantly highlighted in Kabbalah and Criticism. Providing a study of the Kabbalah itself, its great commentators, the 'revisionary ratios' they employed and of its significance as a model for contemporary criticism, Kabbalah and Criticism is an indispensable book for all students of literature as well as for all those who are fascinated by this singularly rich body of mystical writings.
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(While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and...)
While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of Misreading. That unity is brilliantly highlighted in Kabbalah and Criticism. Providing a study of the Kabbalah itself, its great commentators, the 'revisionary ratios' they employed and of its significance as a model for contemporary criticism, Kabbalah and Criticism is an indispensable book for all students of literature as well as for all those who are fascinated by this singularly rich body of mystical writings.
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Bloom's fascination with David Lindsay's philosophical fantasy led him to compose a sequel in 1979. The Flight to Lucifer, his only work of fiction. Tho reviews were positive, he disowned it. His self-conscious theoretical interest in the nature of fantasy literature weighed it down too heavily. He's said he'd remove every copy of the book from every library if he could. Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, supplied the concept of a voyage thru space to a planet created by a demiurge & other incidental features of the book. However, most of its content derives fairly directly from gnosticism. In Lindsay, the passionate giant Maskull & the thin, intense Nightspore, are taken from Earth to the planet Tormance by Krag, a mysterious figure who's a residue of the true godhead, Muspel, unassimilated by the false creations of Tormance's demiurge, Crystalman. Bloom's novel reproduces this formula with names drawn directly from gnostic history & cosmology. Maskull becomes Thomas Perscors, "thru fire", identified as an incarnation of Primal Man. Nightspore's correlate is Seth Valentinus, a reincarnation of the theologian. Their guide is an Aeon, Olam, an emanation of the true god. Lucifer is controlled by "Saklas", gnostic name for the false creator. Olam has brought Perscors to Lucifer to fight Saklas, & has brought Valentinus so he can remember his true self. This is also drawn from Lindsay. However, the details of their adventures differ & in the end Perscors cripples Saklas & changes the order of things on Lucifer, whereas Nightspore's victory is to escape Crystalman's clutches & see reality as it is, tho vowing to return to Earth to free others.
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(In the culmination of a series that began with The Anxiet...)
In the culmination of a series that began with The Anxiety of Influence and A Map or Misreading, Harold Bloom expands upon his controversial theory of revisionism, which he views as a contest of opposing artistic and moral drives. From this theoretical perspective, Bloom reexamines Freud, religious sources of literature, literary modes such as fantasy, and the sequence of American writers that includes Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and John Ashbery.
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( Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature ...)
Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best. This book is published by Harvard University Press.
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In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of Millennium traces these cultural phenomena from their ancient and traditional origins to their present-day, millennial manifestations. In addition, it is a personal account of Bloom's Gnosticism. Certain to educate, challenge, and entertain, Omens of Millennium is as fascinating as it is timely.
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(Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culminatio...)
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. The author leads the reader through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays. Each work is illuminated with warmth, wit, and insight.
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(In Harold Bloom's New York Times bestselling Shakespeare:...)
In Harold Bloom's New York Times bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, the world's foremost literary critic theorized on the authorship of the historic play Hamlet. In this engaging new stand-alone work, he offers a full and warmly personal account of the play itself, explores its extraordinary impact throughout the history of western literature, and seeks to uncover the mystery at its heart.
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( From Harold Bloom, the foremost literary critic of our...)
From Harold Bloom, the foremost literary critic of our time, comes a delightful anthology of the final works of great poets. In Till I End My Song, Bloom has meticulously curated the last poems of one hundred influential poets. These poems, sometimes the literal end and other times the imagined conclusion to a poetic career, offer a lens through which to contemplate the enduring nature of art and the inevitability of death. Bloom's selections highlight the work of the canonized poets T. S. Eliot, Alexander Pope, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Shakespeare, but also revive interest in distinguished but long-neglected poets, such as Conrad Aiken, William Cowper, Edwin Arlington Robinson, George Meredith, and Louis MacNeice. An authoritative collection of last poems, Till I End My Song will reverberate long into the coming silence.
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( J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless wr...)
J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 and 900 BCE, on which Genesis, Exodus and Numbers is based. In The Book of J, Bloom and Rosenberg draw the J text out of the surrounding material and present it as the seminal classic that it is. In addition to Rosenberg's original translations, Bloom argues in several essays that "J" was not a religious writer but a fierce ironist and a woman living in the court of King Solomon. He also argues that J is a writer on par with Homer, Shakespeare and Tolstoy. Bloom also offers historical context, a discussion of the theory of how the different texts came together to create the Bible, and translation notes. Rosenberg's translations from the Hebrew bring J's stories to life and reveal her towering originality and grasp of humanity.
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(The Western Canon Harold Bloom Appendix A–D The Western C...)
The Western Canon Harold Bloom Appendix A–D The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature. It is his best-known book alongside The Anxiety of Influence, and was a surprise bestseller upon its release in the United States. The book argues against what Bloom calls the "School of Resentment", in which he includes feminist literary criticism, Marxist literary criticism, Lacanians, New Historicism, Deconstructionists, and semioticians. The book also contained four appendices that listed works that at the time he considered canonical, stretching from earliest scriptures to Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Bloom would later disown the list, saying that it was written at his editor's insistence and distracted from the book's intention. Norman Fruman wrote that "The Western Canon is a heroically brave, formidably learned and often unbearably sad response to the present state of the humanities".
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("DESDE SAMUEL JOHNSON , NINGÚN CRÍTICO EN LENGUA INGLESA ...)
"DESDE SAMUEL JOHNSON , NINGÚN CRÍTICO EN LENGUA INGLESA HA SIDO MÁS PROLÍFICO QUE HAROLD BLOOM . ES AUTOR DE LAS INTRODUCCIONES DE UNOS QUINIENTOS VOLÚMENES DE LA CHELSEA HOUSE LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM, COLECCIÓN DE LA QUE ES EDITOR GENERAL, Y HA ESCRITO MÁS DE VEINTE LIBROS, ENTRE LOS CUALES UNO DE LOS, MÁS CONOCIDOS ES LA COMPAÑÍA VISIONARIA, QUE AYUDÉ A DEVOLVER LA POESÍA ROMÁNTICA INGLESA AL CANON Y A LOS PROGRAMAS UNIVERSITARIOS DE LITERATURA." ANTONIO WEISS, THE PARIS REVIEW. CON ESTE VOLUMEN DEDICADO AL ANÁLISIS DE LA POESÍA DE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Y JOHN KEATS, ADRIANA HIDALGO EDITORA FINALIZA LA PUBLICACIÓN INTEGRAL DE LA COMPAÑÍA VISIONARIA, UNA OBRA MAYOR DE LA CRÍTICA LITERARIA CONTEMPORÁNEA, INDISPENSABLE PARA LA COMPRENSIÓN DEL R&MANTICISMO COMO MOVIMIENTO SURGIDO A LA LUZ DE LAS GRANDES REVOLUCIONES DE LOS SIGLOS XVIII YXIX. A ESTA EDICIÓN DEFINITIVA SE AGREGA COMO EPILOGO EL ESCLARECEDOR ENSAYO "LA PERSISTENCIA DEL ROMANTICISMO", DONDE BLOOM ACTUALIZA SUS INVESTIGACIONES Y PARTICULARES PUNTOS DE VISTA ACERCA DEL PERÍODO ROMÁNTICO. LOS DOS VOLÚMENES QUE COMPLETAN LA COMPAÑÍA VISIONARIA SON LOS DEDICADOS A WILLIAM BLAKE Y A LORD BYRON Y SHELLEY .
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BLOOM, Harold was born on July 11, 1930 in New York, United States. Son of William Bloom and Paula Lev.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1955. Doctor of Humane Letters, Boston College, 1973.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Yeshiva University, 1976. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Bologna, 1997. Doctor of Humane Letters, St. Michael's College, 1998.
Doctor of Humane Letters, University Rome, 1999. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Coimbra, 2001. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Mass at Dartmouth, 2002.
Member faculty Yale University, since 1955, professor English, 1965-1977, DeVane professor humanities, 1974-1977, professor humanities, since 1977, Sterling professor humanities, since 1983. Visiting professor Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1959, Breadloaf Summer School, 1965-1966, Society for Humanities, Cornell University, 1968-1969. Visiting University professor New School Social Research, New York City, 1982-1984.
Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry Harvard University, 1987-1988. Berg professor England, New York University, 1988—2004.
( While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range a...)
(While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and...)
(In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harol...)
(In the culmination of a series that began with The Anxiet...)
(This reinterpretation of the full sweep of English and Am...)
( J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless wr...)
(In Harold Bloom's New York Times bestselling Shakespeare:...)
(This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to S...)
(This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to S...)
(This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extens...)
(The Western Canon Harold Bloom Appendix A–D The Western C...)
(In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serv...)
(Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culminatio...)
( From Harold Bloom, the foremost literary critic of our...)
(Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own ...)
( Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature ...)
(Bloom's fascination with David Lindsay's philosophical fa...)
("DESDE SAMUEL JOHNSON , NINGÚN CRÍTICO EN LENGUA INGLESA ...)
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Author: Shelley's Mythmaking, 1959, The Visionary Company, 1961, Blake's Apocalypse, 1963, Commentary on Blake, 1965, Yeats, 1970, The Ringers in the Tower, 1971, The Anxiety of Influence, 1973, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, 1977, A Map of Misreading, 1975, Kabbalah and Criticism, 1975, Poetry and Repression, 1976, Figures of Capable Imagination, 1976, The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy, 1979, Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism, 1981, The Breaking of the Vessels, 1981, The Strong Light of the Canonical, 1987, Freud: Transference and Authority, 1988, Poetics of Influence: New and Selected Criticism, 1988, Ruin the Sacred Truths, 1988, The Book of J, 1990, The American Religion, 1992, The Western Canon, 1994, Omens of Millennium, 1996, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, 1998, How to Read and Why, 1999, Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of all Ages, 2000, Genius, 2002, Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, 2003, Best Poems of the English Language: Chaucer to Hart Crane, 2004, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?, 2004, The Names Divine: Jesus and Yahweh, 2005, Fallen Angels, 2007, Till I End My Song, 2009. Editor Chelsea House Modern Critical Views and Interpretations, since 1984, The Anatomy of Influences, 2010.
Faculty, Yale University since 1955. American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, American Academy, and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Married Jeanne Gould, May 8, 1958. Children: Daniel Jacob, David Frank.