Harold Bloom

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

Miscellaneous Books (Introductions, Afterwords, Forewords)

• (Editor) English Romantic Poetry, An Anthology, Doubleday, 1961, two-volume revised edition, Anchor, 1963.
• (Editor, with John Hollander) The Wind and the Rain, Doubleday, 1961.
• The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin, Edited and with Introduction by Harold Bloom, Anchor, 1965.
• (Editor, with Frederick W. Hilles) From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle, Oxford University Press, 1965.
• (Editor) Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poetry, New American Library (New York, NY), 1966.
• (Editor) Walter Horatio Pater, Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas, New American Library, 1970.
• "The Internalization of Quest-Romance" and "The Unpastured Sea: An Introduction to Shelley," in Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism, edited by Harold Bloom, Norton, 1970.
• (Editor) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Selected Poetry, New American Library, 1972.
• (Editor) The Romantic Tradition in American Literature, 33 volumes, Arno, 1972.
• (Editor, with Lionel Trilling) Romantic Prose and Poetry, Oxford University Press, 1973.
• (Editor, with Trilling) Victorian Prose and Poetry, Oxford University Press, 1973.
• (Editor, with Frank Kermode, Hollander, and others) Oxford Anthology of English Literature, two volumes, Oxford University Press, 1973.
• (Editor and Introduction) Selected Writings of Walter Pater, Columbia University Press, New York, 1974.
• (Introduction) Somewhere Is Such a Kingdom: Poems 1952-1971, by Geoffrey Hill, 1975.
• (Editor, with Adrienne Munich) Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, 1979.
• (Editor, with David V. Erdman) The Complete Poetry and Prose by William Blake, Bantam Doubleday Dell, November 1981.
• (Introduction) On the Bible: Eighteen Studies by Martin Buber, New York: Schocken, 1982.
• (Foreword) Elizabeth Bishop and her art, Edited by Lloyd Schwartz and Sybil P. Estess, University of Michigan Press, 1983.
• (Introduction) Musical Variations on Jewish Thought by Olivier Revault d'Allonnes, Translated from the French by Judith L. Greenberg, New York, Geo. Braziller, 1984.
• (Afterword) Selected poems of Jay Wright, Edited with an introduction by Robert B. Stepto, 1987.
• (Foreword) Literary Outtakes, by Larry Dark, Ballantine, 1990.
• (Editor, With Frank Kermode, Lionel Trilling, John Hollander) The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2, Oxford University Press, November 1990.
• (Edited, with Lionel Trilling) Victorian Prose and Poetry, Oxford University Press, November 1990.
• (Foreword) Freud's Dream of Interpretation, by Ken Frieden, November 1990.
• (Introduction) Unlocking the English Language, by Robert Burchfield, New York, Hill & Wang/FSG, 1991.
• (Commentary) The Gospel of Thomas, The Hidden Sayings of Jesus, Translation, with introduction, critical edition of the Coptic text and notes by Marvin Meyer, San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.
• (Editor, With Paul Kane) Collected Poems and Translations of Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Library of America, April 1992.
• (Commentary) Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory, by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, and William Golding, University of Washington Press, March 1996.
• (Afterword) A Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural, Translated by S. Ansky and Joachim Neugroschel, adapted by Tony Kushner, Consortium Book Sales, May 1997.
• (Editor, With David Lehman) The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997, Scribner, 1998.
• (Introduction, with Ralph Manheim) Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi by Henry Corbin, Princeton University Press, April 1998.
• (Introduction) The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, Edited by John Burt, Louisiana State University Press, October 1998.
• (Foreword) Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings by Thomas Mann, Edited by Frederick A. Lubich, Continuum Intl Publishing Group, July 1999.
• (Introduction) The Body Electric: America's best Poetry from the American poetry Review, by Stephen Berg, 2000.
• (Introduction) On the Bible: Eighteen Studies by Martin Buber, Edited by Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Syracuse University Press, February 2000.
• (Afterword) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Foreword by Walter James Miller, Signet Classic paperback: August 2000.
• (Foreword) Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, With a new foreword by Harold Bloom, by Northrop Frye, August 2000.
• (Introduction) Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy, January 2001.
• (Introduction) The Complete Poems of Hart Crane, The Centennial Edition, Edited by Marc Simon, With a new introduction by Harold Bloom, May 2001.
• (Introduction) Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation by Moshe Idel, Yale University Press, 2002.
• (Foreword) Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill, February 2002.
• (Foreword) Côte Blanche by Martha Serpas, February 2002.
• (Foreword) Atlantic Poets: Fernando Pessoa's turn in Anglo-American modernism, by Irene Ramalho Santos, University Press of New England, 2003.
• (Editor) Walt Whitman, Selected Poems by Walt Whitman, February 2003.
• (Foreword) Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken, Oxford University Press, April 2003.
• (Foreword) The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, by Maria Rosa Menocal, April 2003.
• (Introduction) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Translated by Edith Grossman, Ecco Press, November 2003.
• (Introduction) Peripheral Light, Selected and New Poems, by John Kinsella, November 2003.