Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American professor and literary critic.

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July 11 - 1930 - American - Professor - Literary critic

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Bloom is known as a defender of the 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations were at a low ebb, the author of a controversial theory of poetic influence, and more recently as the advocate of an aesthetic approach to literature against Marxist, New Historicist, and other ideologically-driven trends in academic literary criticism. He is the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University

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Romantic - Marxist - New Historicist - Literary criticism - Yale University - New York University

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