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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” Wes... More »
Omens of Millennium Harold Bloom Review By Dan Geddes See also reviews of Bloom’s Book of J, Anxiety of Influence, and Western Canon. See also Elaine Pagel’s The Gnostic Gospels. Omens of Millennium – Key Passages Epigraph Introduction Prelude: S... More »
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom Review By Dan Geddes 11 February 2001 See also reviews of Bloom’s The Book of J, The Anxiety of Influence, and Omens of Millenium. Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon reads like a work a desperation; a work from a man con... More »
The Book Of J By Harold Bloom Translated by David Rosenberg (1990) Review by Dan Geddes 11 October 1999 See also reviews of Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence, Omens of Millennium, and The Western Canon. Although ostensibly a book of literary criticism, Bloom&... More »
by Harold Bloom Review by Dan Geddes 5 October 1999 See other reviews of Bloom: The Book of J, Omens of Millennium, The Western Canon. After a generation characterized by psycho-criticism and the New Criticism, Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence mus... More »