![]() ![]() “He had a prodigious energy for both writing and editing, but I think teaching mattered to him most of all. ![]() Bloom’s critical books, said Salovey, “infused with his erudition, changed the landscape of poetic criticism.”ĭavid Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, remembers Bloom as being “as complete an original as a scholar can be.” Bromwich added that Bloom made lasting contributions to the critical literature on Shelley, Blake, Yeats, Stevens, Shakespeare - and a great many other poets. Among his master works are “The Anxiety of Influence” (1973), “The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages” (1994), and “How to Read and Why” (2000).īloom, who taught his last class on Thursday, was a “galvanizing teacher” who did not simply teach poetry - he inhabited it, said Yale President Peter Salovey, the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology. He was 89 years old.īloom was widely regarded as the most recognized literary critic in America. Harold Bloom, world-renowned literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, died on Oct. Harold Bloom (Photo credit: Michael Marsland) ![]()
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