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Harold Bloom

20th-21st century (Late Modern/Contemporary)

Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is best known for his theory of the 'anxiety of influence,' which posits that poets struggle against their literary predecessors, and for his passionate defense of the Western literary canon. Bloom was a prolific writer whose work championed aesthetic autonomy and the power of individual genius against what he saw as ideological reductions of literature.

Literary Criticism

The Anxiety of Influence
The Western Canon
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
How to Read and Why
The Book of J
The American Religion
The Visionary Company
Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism
Ruin the Sacred Truths
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

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