Harold Bloom was a strange, singular figure: an old-school, elbow-patches academic in literary criticism who managed to generate heated controversy whenever he spoke. Like other great American art ...

I was outraged after reading Harold Bloom’s Sept. 19 commentary, “For the World of Letters, It’s a Horror.” I am a lifetime avid reader, and having read works by the likes of Saul Bellow and Philip ...

Harold Bloom was a rarity: a best-selling and widely known literary critic. Affectionately dubbed the "King Kong" of criticism, Bloom died Monday at the age of 89, at a hospital in New Haven, Conn., ...

Harold Bloom, world-renowned literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, died on Oct. 14 in New Haven. He was 89 years old. Bloom was widely regarded as the most recognized literary ...

NEW YORK — Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal “The Anxiety of Influence” and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer ...

For more than three decades Harold Bloom, Cassandra-like, warned America that the literary culture that sustained him and other lovers of the word was in the process of being sacrificed on the altar ...