Description
About the Author
Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, and The American Religion. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and the Alfonso Reyes International Prize of Mexico. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and in New York City.
Reviews
rich in insights * Sydney Morning Herald *
... the death of literature has been deferred once more. * Daily Telegraph *
the Yale literary scholar has added another remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work * Huffington Post *
Bloom is... the last of the Titans. Literary Review, John Sutherland
a wonderful introduction from one of the most renowned critics of his generation * A Hermit's Progress *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198753599
Author Harold Bloom
Format Hardback
Page Count 544
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 157mm * 46mm