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13 unusual facts about Harold Bloom


A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Harold Bloom includes A Tomb for Boris Davidovich in his list of canonical works of the period he names the Chaotic Age (1900–present) in The Western Canon.

Bleak House

Harold Bloom, in his book The Western Canon, considers Bleak House to be Dickens's greatest novel.

Clarel

In 1994, Harold Bloom chose Clarel as one of four Melville works to be included in his book, The Western Canon.

Documentary hypothesis

Bloom, Harold and Rosenberg, David The Book of J, Random House, NY, USA 1990.

James Wilcox

Since its publication in 1983 Modern Baptists has been included in Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon and listed in GQ’s 45th anniversary issue as one of the best works of fiction published in the past 45 years.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis was included on American literary critic Harold Bloom's list of the greatest 100 geniuses of literature, alongside writers such as Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes.

Latin American literature

Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

According to literary critic Harold Bloom, the most eminent Latin American author of any century is the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges.

Period piece

Harold Bloom in The Western Canon (1994) labels those works not included in his list of 20th century "classics" as being mostly "period pieces" (see Appendix header for "The Chaotic Age").

Salvador Espriu

During his acceptance of the International Catalonia prize, renowned literary critic Harold Bloom called Espriu 'an extraordinary poet by any international standard', and later said 'The Nobel committee is guilty of many errors, and one of those was not to have given the prize to Salvador Espriu.

The War of the End of the World

The author is famously known for considering this his most accomplished novel — an opinion shared by the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, as well as the American critic Harold Bloom, who even includes the novel in what he calls the "Western canon."

To Autumn

Others, like Harold Bloom, have emphasized the "exhausted landscape", the completion, the finality of death, although "Winter descends here as a man might hope to die, with a natural sweetness".

Un Poco Loco

Literary critic Harold Bloom included this performance on his short list of the greatest works of twentieth-century American art.


Alan Bernheimer

He attended Horace Mann School, and graduated in 1970 from Yale College, where he became friends with poets Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, Rodger Kamenetz, and Alex Smith and studied literature with A. Bartlett Giamatti and Harold Bloom and poetry with Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson.

Boundary 2

:Contributors: Paul A. Bové, William V. Spanos, David Antin, Ihab Hassan, Charles Altieri, Catharine R. Stimpson, Harold Bloom, Helene Cixous, Barry Alpert, Joseph N. Riddel, Gerald Gillespie, Cornel West

Little, Big

This limited edition will include reproductions of the artwork of Peter Milton, and an afterword by Harold Bloom.

May Swenson

Judges for the competition have included Mary Oliver, Maxine Kumin, John Hollander, Mark Doty, Alice Quinn, Harold Bloom, Garrison Keillor, Edward Field and others from the first tier of American letters.

Yale school

The group included high-profile literary scholars such as Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, and Harold Bloom.