Ammons and Allen Ginsberg, quickly making a name for himself with his individual and challenging views. He examined the Romantic tradition from its beginnings in the 18th century to its influence on such late 20th-century poets as A.R. and enlarged ed., 1971), and The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition (1971), were creative studies of the Romantic poets and their work, then out of fashion. As a young man, he was much influenced by Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry (1947), a study of William Blake, and he later stated that he considered Frye “certainly the largest and most crucial literary critic in the English language” since Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde.īloom’s own early books, Shelley’s Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (1961, rev. He attended Cornell (B.A., 1951) and Yale (Ph.D., 1955) universities and began teaching at Yale in 1955 he also taught at New York University from 1988 to 2004. Harold Bloom, (born July 11, 1930, Bronx, New York, U.S.-died October 14, 2019, New Haven, Connecticut), American literary critic known for his innovative interpretations of literary history and of the creation of literature.īloom’s first language was Yiddish, and he also learned Hebrew before English.

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