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1930–2019 United States
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and writer. He was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, a former Professor of English at New York University, and the author of over twenty-five books.
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.
Interview in Criticism in Society (1987)
Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
The Anatomy of Influence (2011)
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I must say these Oxfordians are very virulent and, forgive me for saying it, very crazy people indeed.
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.
Jesus and Yahweh: the names divine (2005)
Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.
The Anatomy of Influence (2011)
Successful therapy is an oxymoron.
The outward limit of human achievement.
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