Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. His published works include The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages and The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. He is coeditor of Romantic Poetry and Prose and Victorian Poetry and Prose.

They Have the Numbers; We, The Heights

On The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997.

  • Harold Bloom
with responses from
  • Mark Doty
  • Thylias Moss
  • Marjorie Perloff
  • David Mura
  • J. D. McClatchy
  • Kevin Young
  • Donald Revell
  • Reginald Shepherd
  • Suzanne Gardiner
  • Rita Dove
  • Ann Lauterbach
  • Carol Muske-Dukes
  • Sven Birkerts

Candidates for Survival

A Talk with Harold Bloom

  • Harold Bloom
  • Ellen Spirer
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