![]() ![]() Beginning as a scholar of British Romantic poetry, he became famous in the 1970s as the theorist of the anxiety of influence and as a rather unwilling member of the group of deconstructive critics that became known as the Yale School (see Bradley 2010, cited under Deconstructive Responses and Responses to Deconstruction). His career contains a number of remarkable turns. ![]() ![]() In this context one can give only preliminary guidance the risk of being overwhelmed, with Bloom, remains. In many ways, indeed, Bloom’s work is prodigious. He has won numerous awards, and today Bloom is probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world. Bloom gained his PhD from Yale University in 1955, and he has taught there ever since he is currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English. Brought up in a Yiddish-speaking home, he taught himself English and began to read poetry at an early age. Harold Bloom was born in the Bronx, New York, on 11 July 1930. ![]()
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