Harold Bloom
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019![Harold Bloom was America’s best known literary critic for at least 30 years. Reading Bloom’s books were often a guilty pleasure for me. He wrote effusively in superlatives about his favorite writers, the writers of the “traditional” Western canon. Bloom’s magisterial style was a important influence on my own critical voice, which lacked Bloom’s depth of reading. Read reviews of four of his best known works (The Book of J, The Western Canon, The Anxiety of Influence and Omens of […]](https://www.thesatirist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Harold_Bloom_300px-Copy.png)
Harold Bloom was America’s best known literary critic for at least 30 years.
Reading Bloom’s books were often a guilty pleasure for me. He wrote effusively in superlatives about his favorite writers, the writers of the “traditional” Western canon.
Bloom’s magisterial style was a important influence on my own critical voice, which lacked Bloom’s depth of reading.
Read reviews of four of his best known works (The Book of J, The Western Canon, The Anxiety of Influence and Omens of Millennium) in The Satirist.
https://www.thesatirist.com/tag/harold-bloom
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/misreading-harold-bloom
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