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."
Enrapturing . . . radiant . . . intoxicating . . . Harold Bloom,
who bestrides our literary world like a willfully idiosyncratic
colossus, belongs to the party of rapture. Cynthia Ozick, "The New
York Times Book Review"
The capstone to a lifetime of thinking, writing and teaching . . .
The primary strength of "The Daemon Knows" is the brilliance and
penetration of the connections Bloom makes among the great writers
of the past, the shrewd sketching of intellectual feuds or
oppositions that he calls agons. . . . Bloom s books are like a
splendid map of literature, a majestic aerial view that clarifies
what we cannot see from the ground. "The Washington Post"
""
Audacious . . . The Yale literary scholar has added another
remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work. "The Huffington
Post"
""
The sublime "The Daemon Knows" is a veritable feast for the general
reader (me) as well as the advanced (I assume) one. John
Ashbery
"
" Mesmerizing. " New York Journal of Books"
""
Bloom is a formidable critic, an extravagant intellect. " Chicago
Tribune"
As always, Bloom conveys the intimate, urgent, compelling sense of
why it matters that we read these canonical authors. "Kirkus
Reviews" (starred review)
Few people write criticism as nakedly confident as Bloom s any
more. "The Guardian "(U.K.)"
Praise for Harold Bloom and "The Daemon Knows
"
The capstone to a lifetime of thinking, writing and teaching . . .
The primary strength of "The Daemon Knows" is the brilliance and
penetration of the connections Bloom makes among the great writers
of the past, the shrewd sketching of intellectual feuds or
oppositions that he calls agons. . . . Bloom s books are like a
splendid map of literature, a majestic aerial view that clarifies
what we cannot see from the ground. "The Washington Post"
""
Enrapturing . . . radiant . . . intoxicating . . . Harold Bloom,
who bestrides our literary world like a willfully idiosyncratic
colossus, belongs to the party of rapture. Cynthia Ozick, "The New
York Times Book Review"
The sublime "The Daemon Knows" is a veritable feast for the general
reader (me) as well as the advanced (I assume) one. John
Ashbery
The indispensable critic. "The New York Review of Books
"
[Bloom] is, by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary
presences of the last half-century. Sam Tanenhaus, "The" "New York
Times Book Review
"
As always, Bloom conveys the intimate, urgent, compelling sense of
why it matters that we read these canonical authors. "Kirkus
Reviews" (starred 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. Michael
Lindgren, "The" "Washington Post
"
A colossus among critics. Adam Begley, "The""New York Times
Magazine
"
Probably the most celebrated literary critic in the United States.
Frank Kermode, "The Guardian""
Praise for Harold Bloom and "The Daemon Knows""The sublime "The
Daemon Knows" is a veritable feast for the general reader (me) as
well as the advanced (I assume) one."--John Ashbery"The
indispensable critic."--"The New York Review of Books""[Bloom] is,
by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary presences of
the last half-century."--Sam Tanenhaus, "The""New York Times Book
Review"
"A colossus among critics."--Adam Begley, "The""New York Times
Magazine"
"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."--Michael
Lindgren, "The""Washington Post"
" "
"Probably the most celebrated literary critic in the United
States."--Frank Kermode, "The Guardian"
Praise for Harold Bloom
"The indispensable critic."--"The New York Review of Books"
"[Bloom] is, by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary
presences of the last half-century."--Sam Tanenhaus, "The""New York
Times Book Review"
"A colossus among critics."--Adam Begley, "The""New York Times
Magazine"
"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."--Michael
Lindgren, "The""Washington Post"
" "
"Probably the most celebrated literary critic in the United
States."--Frank Kermode, "The Guardian"
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