Harold Bloom

Interview

• "Television versus literature" (New York, 15/06/92)

Biography

Born 11 July 1930 and Professor of Classics at Yale University, Harold Bloom describes himself as a Jewish gnostic and academic. Considered one of the greatest living literary critics, he is currently work on a book on William Shakespeare.

Bibliography

Among his publications:

• The American Religion (1992).
• The Book of J (1990).
• Ruin the Sacred Truths (1989).
• Poetics of Influence (1988).
• The Strong Light of the Canonical (1987).
• The Breaking of the Vessels (1982).
• Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (1982).
• The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy (1979).
• Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate (1977).
• Poetry and Repression (1976).
• Figures of Capable Imagination (1976).
• Kabbalah and Criticism (1975).
• A Map of Misreading (1975).
• The Anxiety of Influence (1973).
• The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition (1971)
• Yeats (1970).
• Commentary on David V. Erdman's Edition of The Poetry and Prose of William Blake (1965).
• Blake's Apocalypse (1963).
• The Visionary Company (1961).
• Shelley's Mythmaking (1959).