Harold Bloom, Author . Warner $35.95 (814p) ISBN 978-0-446-52717-0
With The Western Canon, Yale-based critical eminence Bloom tapped into a strain of the cultural zeitgeist looking for authoritative takes on what to read. Bloom here follows up with 6–10 pages each on 100 "geniuses" of literature (all...
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Harold Bloom, Author . Putnam/Riverhead $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-57322-233-4
The Prince of Denmark, argues the eminent Bloom, was not much loved by his father the warrior king or by his mother, Queen Gertrude. Developing themes from his Shakespeare: Invention of the Human,
Bloom adds that Hamlet was instead rather detached,...
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Harold Bloom, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57322-284-6
Emulating one of his favorite critics, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Bloom returns once more to sift through the Western canon, this time to discern and describe those writers whose brand of wisdom he holds in highest esteem. Beginning with Job and...
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Harold Bloom, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (238p) ISBN 978-1-57322-322-5
Prolific literary critic, Yale professor and professional provocateur Bloom (The Book of J
) here tackles the characters of the Jewish and Christian gods: what god do we meet in Hebrew Scripture? Who is the Jesus of the New Testament, and does he...
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Edited by Harold Bloom, Harper, $24.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-192305-0
Bloom may be the most famous poetry critic in the English language. As he approached his 80th birthday, he turned his critical faculties toward the subject of death: this surprisingly enjoyable anthology contains the last poems—or the poems that...
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Harold Bloom, Author Riverhead Books $35 (745p) ISBN 978-1-57322-120-7
In some ways the crowning achievement of the controversial Yale critic's career (which has produced The Anxiety of Influence; The Book of J; etc.), this sweeping monograph devotes an essay to each of the plays, emphasizing their originality and...
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Harold Bloom, Author Scribner Book Company $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-85906-4
This aesthetic self-help manual is a reliably idiosyncratic guide to what Yale literary critic Bloom calls ""the most healing of pleasures""-- reading well. In chapters that focus on short stories, poems, novels and plays, Bloom takes readers on a...
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Harold Bloom, Author Riverhead Books $24.95 (255p) ISBN 978-1-57322-045-3
A fascination with near-death experiences, alien abductions, angels and prophetic dreams has reached a ""particular intensity"" in the U.S. as the millennium approaches. Or so says Bloom (The Western Canon) in this dazzling, maverick study in...
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Harold Bloom. Random/Spiegel & Grau, $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9782-8
Literary critic and Yale professor Bloom (The Anxiety of Influence), a distinctive, contentious voice in American letters for decades, offers a massive, discursive survey of six pairs of eminent American authors: Walt Whitman and Herman Melville,...
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Harold Bloom. Scribner, $22 (176p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6413-2
Famed literary critic and Yale professor Bloom (The Daemon Knows) showcases his favorite Shakespearian character in this poignant work. Falstaff, one of Shakespeare’s most complex tragicomic characters, appears in Henry IV Part One and Part Two and...
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Harold Bloom. Scribner, $22 (176p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6416-3
From the start of this oddly unsatisfying analysis of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, celebrated literary scholar Bloom (Falstaff) explores his own beguilement by the latter title character. He opens with a paean to South African actress Janet...
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Harold Bloom. Scribner, $24 (176p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6419-4
At the outset of this pithy exegesis of King Lear, Bloom (Falstaff: Give Me Life) describes the play’s title character as, along with Hamlet, one of Shakespeare’s “most challenging personalities,” in part because “his violent expressionism desires...
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Harold Bloom. Scribner, $24 (160p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6422-4
There are few readers more astute than Bloom (Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air), as is proven once more in this perceptive study of Othello. The fourth entry in a series devoted to “Shakespeare’s personalities” finds Bloom wrestling with Iago, “a...
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Harold Bloom, Joint Author, David Rosenberg, Translator, Harold Bloom, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-73624-0
This controversial, bestselling collaboration is a translation of and critical look at text within Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy written by an ostensibly female author known only as ``J.'' (Nov.)no...
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William Golding, Author, Harold Bloom, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67997-2
Without knowing it, American worshipers have moved away from Christianity and now embrace pre-Christian Gnosticism, asserts Bloom ( The Book of J ). In his most controversial book to date, the Yale professor defines ``the American Religion'' as a...
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Harold Bloom. Scribner, $24 (176p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6425-5
Acclaimed critic Bloom (How to Read and Why) once again plumbs the depths of a Shakespeare play to reveal new insights, this time offering a richly detailed character sketch of Macbeth. In a close, scene-by-scene reading, Bloom presents Macbeth as...
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Harold Bloom. Knopf, $35 (560p) ISBN 978-0-525-52088-7
Admirers of prolific polymath Bloom (Macbeth: A Dagger in the Mind) will treasure this assemblage of 76 pieces, ranging in length from brief reflections to full-length essays, and in genre from memoir to literary analysis. Bloom’s central interest—th
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Harold Bloom, edited by David Mikics. Library of America, $32 (500p) ISBN 978-1-59853-640-9
Literary critic and scholar Bloom identifies the classics of American letters and what makes them so in this rich compilation of five decades of criticism. The 47 featured writers and the chronological discussions begin with Ralph Waldo Emerson, “the
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Harold Bloom. Yale Univ., $35 (672p) ISBN 978-0-300-24728-2
Late critic and Yale professor Bloom (Possessed by Memory) leaves behind a passionate reflection on a lifetime of reading. Conscious of his own limited time left, he reflects that “if life is to be more than breathing, it needs the enhancement of...
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