Let Yale University Harold bloomauthor of the Western canon and a leading authority on literaturehelp develop your understanding of the worlds great literary works.
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about the author Professor Blooms works include Shelleys mythmaking (1959), The visionary company (1961), Blakes apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), a map of misreadings (1975), Kabbalah and criticism (1975), and agon: towards a theory of revisionism (1982), The uneasiness of influence (1973) sets forth Professor Blooms provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors.
His most recent books are the American religion (1992) and the Western canon (1994).
Professor Bloom earned his Ph D from Yale University in 1955 and has served on the Yale faculty since then.
He is a 1985 macarthur foundation Award recipient and served as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of poetry at Harvard University in He is currently the editor of the Chelsea house series major literary characters and modern critical views, and other Chelsea house series in literary criticism.