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Harold Bloom has 5 media appearances.

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Sep

Harold Bloom

Booknotes, Sunday, September 3, 2000

Harold Bloom discusses How to Read and Why.

"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom. Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. Always dazzling in his ability to draw connections between texts across continents and centuries, Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms. Probing discussions of the works of beloved writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner highlight the varied challenges and delights found in short stories, poems, novels, and plays. Bloom not only provides illuminating guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring—aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most intriguing and complex literary characters. Bloom's engaging prose and brilliant insights will send you hurrying back to old favorites and entice you to discover new ones. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book. —from the publisher's website (timspalding)… (more)

Oct

A conversation with literary scholar Harold Bloom

Charlie Rose, Thursday, October 27, 2005

Harold Bloom

A conversation with renowned literary scholar and Sterling professor at Yale Harold Bloom about his book (timspalding)

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Date of birth

1930-07-11

Date of death

2019-10-14

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Gender

male

Nationality

USA

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Birthplace

East Bronx, New York, USA

Place of death

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Places of residence

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Education

Cornell University (BA ∙ 1953)

University of Cambridge (Pembroke College)

Yale University (PhD ∙ 1956)

Occupations

Relationships

Frye, Northrop (main influence)

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1990])

Yale University

Bread Loaf School of English

Awards and honors

Fulbright Fellowship (1955)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1962-63)

Newton Arvin Award (1967)

Zabel Prize, American Institute of Arts and Letters (1982)

Sterling Professorship, Yale University (1983)

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Harold Bloom wordt wereldwijd gezien als een van de belangrijkste literatuurcritici en een van de meest vooraanstaande denkers. Hij is Sterling Professor of the Humanities aan Yale University en de auteur van een groot aantal belangwekkende boeken, waaronder The Western Canon, Shakespeare: the invention of the human en The anxiety of influence. Bloom schreef bovendien essays over onder meer Keats, Shelley, Wilde en Poe.

Disambiguation notice

Bloom has edited several books with the same title for different series. Combine with care.