In a 2005 interview, Jeanne said that she and Harold were both atheists, which he denied: "No, no, I'm not an atheist. Personal life and death īloom married Jeanne Gould in 1958. Fond of endearments, Bloom addressed both male and female students and friends as "my dear". In 2010, he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. From 1988 to 2004, Bloom was Berg Professor of English at New York University while maintaining his position at Yale. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1985. Teaching career īloom was a member of the Yale English Department from 1955 to 2019, teaching his final class four days before his death. Several years later Bloom dedicated his book The Anxiety of Influence to Wimsatt. īloom was a standout student at Yale, where he clashed with the faculty of New Critics, including William K. In 1954–55 Bloom was a Fulbright Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge. degree in classics from Cornell, where he was a student of English literary critic M. Bloom went to the Bronx High School of Science, where his grades were poor but his standardized-test scores were high. Īs a boy, Bloom read Hart Crane's Collected Poems, a collection that inspired his lifelong fascination with poetry. Harold had three older sisters and an older brother he was the last living sibling. Bloom's father, a garment worker, was born in Odessa and his Lithuanian Jewish mother, a homemaker, near Brest Litovsk in what is today Belarus. He was raised as an Orthodox Jew in a Yiddish-speaking household, where he learned literary Hebrew he learned English at the age of six. He lived in the Bronx at 1410 Grand Concourse. He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.īloom was born in New York City on July 11, 1930, the son of Paula (née Lev) and William Bloom. īloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literary departments were focusing on what he derided as the " school of resentment" ( multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). Bloom was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages.
He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel. Harold Bloom (J– October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
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