"Byron's universe," Harold Bloom wrote, "is neither Christian, nor Romantic, nor yet the eighteenth-century cosmos he would have liked to repossess." Childe Harold's Pilgrimage proves both the ...

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., ...

Yale is still a place, thankfully, where there are people who love and value poetry. Yet, it is very hard to describe to today’s undergraduates what it was like to be here in the 1970s and 1980s, when ...

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 of Western ...