Harold Bloom is a great critic — I would argue the greatest living critic writing in English — as well as a great teacher. He holds a chaired professorship at Yale and another at New Yo… ...

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According to Harold Bloom, nobody can read good books any more because we were raised by computers and then indoctrinated by the “academic rabble” to deride great writers rather than cherish ...

Harold Bloom talked about his book, How to Read and Why, published by Scribner. The book focused on the reading of many diffe… ...

“In Harold Bloom’s class it wasn’t enough to read them; we anguished over them, picking away at all the intricate knots left by their cunning authors,” McGrath wrote.

Harold Bloom, the literary critic, once expressed doubt about the audiobook. “Deep reading really demands the inner ear as well as the outer ear,” he told the Times. “You need the whole ...

Professor Harold Bloom read from his book, [Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages], published by Scribner. The book is a collection of short stories and poems, mostly ...

The literary scholar Harold Bloom wishes that he were a bit more like Sir John Falstaff, the convivial, indecorous knight who appears in three of Shakespeare’s plays. Mr. Bloom considers ...