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(1930-2019) Critic. Harold Bloom was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in New Haven, Connecticut.

Full Name

Harold Bloom

Locations

Bronx

Author's Timeline


1930

BIRTH

Harold Bloom was born in the East Bronx, New York, on July 11, 1930.

1947

OTHER

Professor Bloom graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1947.

1951

OTHER

Professor Bloom earned a bachelor of arts degree in the classics at Cornell University in 1951.

1959

LITWORK

Shelley's Mythmaking
Yale University Press

Nonfiction.

1961

LITWORK

The Visionary Company: A Reading Of English Romantic Poetry
Doubleday

Nonfiction.

1973

LITWORK

The Anxiety of Influence
Oxford University Press
0195016130 ISBN-13: 978-0195016130
Nonfiction.

1988

OTHER

Professor Bloom taught at New York University.

1990

LITWORK

The Book Of J
Grove Weidenfeld
0802110509 ISBN-13: 978-0802110503
Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0151957479 ISBN-13: 978-0151957477
Criticism.

1998

LITWORK

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Riverhead Hardcover
1573221201 ISBN-13: 978-1573221207
Nonfiction.

2000

LITWORK

How to Read and Why
Scribner
0684859068 ISBN-13: 978-0684859064
Nonfiction.

2011

LITWORK

The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life
Yale University Press
0300167601 ISBN-13: 978-0300167603
Nonfiction.

2019

LITWORK

Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
Scribner
1501164252 ISBN-13: 978-1501164255
Nonfiction.

2019

LITWORK

Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism
Knopf
0525520880 ISBN-13: 978-0525520887
Nonfiction.

2019

DEATH

Harold Bloom died at a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 14, 2019.

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