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Probably the most celebrated literary critic in the United States Frank Kermode, The Guardian A veritable feast for the general reader John Ashbery A colossus among critics The New York Times Magazine [Bloom] is, by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary presences of the last half-century. The New York Times Book Review Bloom thinks in the sweep of millennia, of intellectual patterns that unfold over centuries, of a vast and intricate labyrinth of interconnections between artists from Plato to Pater. The Washington Post

a wonderful introduction from one of the most renowned critics of his generation * A Hermit's Progress * Bloom is... the last of the Titans. Literary Review, John Sutherland the Yale literary scholar has added another remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work * Huffington Post * ... the death of literature has been deferred once more. * Daily Telegraph * 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

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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.

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