Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, renowned for his innovative theories on literary influence, the Western canon, and Shakespeare. He authored over 50 books, including The Anxiety of Influence (1973), The Western Canon (1994), and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), and was considered one of the most influential critics of his time.
Literary Criticism
Humanities
Samuel Beckett (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Wm. Shakespeare-Tragedies (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
G. K. Chesterton (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Alice Walker (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
John Keats (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
The Sonnets (Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages)
The Chronicles of Narnia (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
The Glass Menagerie (Bloom's Guides)
William Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream (Bloom's Notes)
Sylvia Plath (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Albert Camus (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Jean-Paul Sartre (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
J.R.R. Tolkien (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Bloom's Guides)
Arthur Miller (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
The Crucible (Bloom's Notes)
Death of a Salesman (Bloom's Guides)
Animal Farm (Bloom's Guides)
William Golding's Lord of the Flies (Bloom's Notes)
Charles Dickens (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
William Shakespeare's Richard III (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Beowulf (MCI) (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)