Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom was one of the last of the so-called ‘Yale critics’, who shaped the terrain of literary criticism in the latter half of the twentieth century. Bloom died in October 2019, and his final book, Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles, arrives two years after his death and caps a long and controversial career. In this issue, James Ley surveys this swansong by a critic who ‘came to style himself less as a theorist and more as a theologian of literature: the high priest and only admitted member of his own private religion’.
... (read more)Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The power of the reader’s mind over a universe of death by Harold Bloom
by James Ley •
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Harold Bloom
by James Ley •
