Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harold Bloom was a strange, singular figure: an old-school, elbow-patches academic in literary criticism who managed to generate ...

Rarely does a literary critic display the kind of genius and creativity characteristic of the famous authors he analyzes. Harold Bloom, who died at the age of 89 on Oct. 14, was such a critic. Over a ...

The late Bloom’s New Age leftist patriotism made him un-cancellable within his own camp. Harold Bloom was a strange, singular figure: an old-school, elbow-patches academic in literary criticism who ...