Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, renowned for his innovative theories on literary influence, the Western canon, and Shakespeare. He authored over 50 books, including The Anxiety of Influence (1973), The Western Canon (1994), and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), and was considered one of the most influential critics of his time.
Literary Criticism
Humanities
George Orwell (Mod Crit Views) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
James Dickey (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Mark Twain (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Honore de Balzac (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
African-American Poets: Phillis Wheatley Through Melvin B. Tolson (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Of Mice And Men (Bloom's Guides)
Gwendolyn Brooks (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Robert Browning (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Truman Capote (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Marcel Proust (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
J.D. Salinger (Bloom's Biocritiques)
Pindar (Modern Critical Views Series 2)
Jane Austen (Bloom's Biocritiques)
Black American Prose Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance (Writers of English Lives and Works)
Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Marcel Proust (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Alice Walker (Bloom's Major Novelists)
Thomas Hardy (Bloom's Major Novelists)
Charles Olson/Modern Critical Views Series 2
Canadian Poetry Through E J Pratt (Modern Critical Views Ser II)
The Member of the Wedding (Bloom's Guides)
Major Author's Edition of the New Moultons Library of Literary Criticism: Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism)
Russian Fiction
William Shakespeare: Histories & Poems (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)