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
Joe Orton (Modern Critical Views Series)
Eugene Ionesco (Modern Critical Views II)
George Eliot (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Leo Tolstoy (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Bloom's Classic Critical Views)
William Wordsworth's The Prelude (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Stephen Crane (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Romeo and Juliet (Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages)
Margaret Atwood (MCV) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Derek Walcott (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Bloom's Guides)
E.L. Doctorow (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
J.R.R. Tolkien (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Homer (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
J.R.R. Tolkien (MCV) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Jonathan Swift (MCV) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Jane Austen (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (Bloom's Guides)
Edgar Allan Poe (Mod Crit Vws) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
John Milton (MCV)-Oop (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
The Catcher in the Rye (Bloom's Notes)
Matthew Arnold (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Herman Melville (Bloom's Classic Critical Views)