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Harold Bloom (International) assertion Harold Bloom i(A78630 works by) (a.k.a. Harold Irving Bloom)
Born: Established: 11 Jul 1930 New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
; Died: Ceased: 14 Oct 2019 New Haven, Connecticut,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,

Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

An American literary critic, Harold Bloom was been Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His published works range across the areas of Shakespeare, the Bible and the classics and include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, and The Anxiety of Influence. A polarising figure, he was known as a champion of the Western canon, and came to prominence in the critical debate over the canon in the 1990s.

Bloom was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the recipient of numerous awards, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Criticism, and received honorary degrees from the Universities of Rome and Bologna.

Bloom died in New Haven, Connecticut, in October 2019.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Peripheral Light : New and Selected Poems Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2003 Z1064478 2003 selected work poetry
2003 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Poetry
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