Harold Bloom

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

Articles by Harold Bloom

• On Extended Wings; Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems. By Helen Hennessy Vendler, (review), New York Times, October 5, 1969.
• Poets' meeting in the heyday of their youth; A Single Summer With Lord Byron, New York Times, February 15, 1970.
• An angel's spirit in a decaying (and active) body, New York Times, November 22, 1970.
• The Use of Poetry, New York Times, November 12, 1975.
• Northrop Frye exalting the designs of romance; The Secular Scripture, New York Times, April 18, 1976.
• On Solitude in America, New York Times, August 4, 1977.
• The Critic/Poet, New York Times, February 5, 1978.
• A Fusion of Traditions; Rosenberg, New York Times, July 22, 1979.
• Straight Forth Out of Self, New York Times, June 22, 1980.
• The Heavy Burden of the Past; Poets, New York Times, January 4, 1981.
• The Pictures of the Poet; The Painting and Drawings of William Blake, By Martin Butlin. Vol. I, Text. Vol. II, Plates, (Review) New York Times, January 3, 1982.
• A Novelist's Bible; The Story of the Stories, The Chosen People and Its God. By Dan Jacobson, (Review) New York Times, October 17, 1982.
• Isaac Bashevis Singer's Jeremiad; The Penitent, By Isaac Bashevis Singer, (Review) New York Times, September 25, 1983.
• Domestic Derangements; A Late Divorce, By A.B. Yehoshua Translated by Hillel Halkin, (Review) New York Times, February 19, 1984.
• War Within the Walls; In the Freud Archives, By Janet Malcolm, (Review) New York Times, May 27, 1984.
• His Long Ordeal by Laughter; Zuckerman Bound, A Trilogy and Epilogue. By Philip Roth, (Review) New York Times, May 19, 1985.
• A Comedy of Worldly Salvation; The Good Apprentice, By Iris Murdoch, (Review) New York Times, January 12, 1986.
• Freud, the Greatest Modern Writer (Review) New York Times, March 23, 1986.
• Passionate Beholder of America in Trouble; Look Homeward, A Life of Thomas Wolfe. By David Herbert Donald, (Review) New York Times, February 8, 1987.
• The Book of the Father; The Messiah of Stockholm, By Cynthia Ozick, (Review) New York Times, March 22, 1987.
• Still Haunted by Covenant; The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse, Edited by Irving Howe, Ruth R. Wisse and Khone Shmeruk; American Yiddish Poetry, A Bilingual Anthology. Edited by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav; Selected Poems of Yankev Glatshteyn, Edited and translated by Richard J. Fein, (Reviews) New York Times, January 31, 1988.
• New Heyday of Gnostic Heresies, New York Times, April 26, 1992.
• A Jew Among the Cossacks; The first English translation of Isaac Babel's journal about his service with the Russian cavalry. 1920 Diary, By Isaac Babel, (Review) New York Times, June 4, 1995.
• Kaddish; By Leon Wieseltier, (Review) New York Times, October 4, 1998.
• View; On First Looking Into Gates's Crichton, New York Times, June 4, 2000.
• What Ho, Malvolio!'; The election, as Shakespeare might have seen it, New York Times, December 6, 2000.
• Macbush, (play) Vanity Fair, April, 2004.