Harold Bloom, American literary critic known for his innovative interpretations of literary history and of the creation of literature. For Chelsea House Publishers he edited numerous series to ‘chronicle all of Western literature.’ Learn more about Blo
安•卡森的第一本书《苦乐参半之爱:一篇随笔》(“Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”)(1986),是对萨福所用修辞法的沉思(萨福的所有残篇均已由安•卡森译出)。在萨福的心灵之舞中,“欲望是活动的。爱是个动词。”《苦乐参半之爱》调用柏拉图的《斐德罗篇》,以如下杰出的放弃性段落中断(而不是结束或停歇...
Bloom, Harold, 1930–2019, American literary critic and scholar, b. The Bronx, N.Y., Ph.D. Yale (1955). The son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Russia, he was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale and Berg Professor of English at New York Univ. He wrote more than 40 books and...
Bloom, Harold (1930– ) literary critic, educator; born in New York City. He earned a Ph.D. at Yale, where he joined the faculty in 1955. Bloom overturned the humanistic view of literary tradition inThe Anxiety of Influence(1973). Consistently arguing against deconstruction and most other ...
According to Harold Bloom, Wordsworths poems like “The Old Cumberland Beggar” , __, and “Michael” , with universal common sorrow presented in stark simplicity, moves the reader “by their exquisitely controlled pathos and their aesthetic dignity in r
This attitude is widely spread.To take just one example,in his introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language,Harold Bloom writes,"The art of reading poetry begins with mastering allusiveness(引经据典) in particular poems,from the simple to the very complex."This sound...
poems–“to rally all that remains” after a poetically primal encounter with one’s precursors, but this explanation leaves something to be desired. (Bloom completely ignores, for example, biographical information.) Instead Bloom returns to his charming allegory, wherein Adam represents natural man...
When he was young, Bloom also memorized poetry for fun, and, after years of teaching Shakespeare’s plays, still knows them, most of “Moby Dick” and many of the other poems he teaches by heart. He believes that his extraordinary memory may be the result of Talmudic-scholar ancestors. ...
We are in the open Atlantic. Every poem about to open before you springs from a place and bears its name. At each of these wells, the earth speaks through human and animal life. Flowers bloom and knock around in the wind. There is always wind. ...
where are the charms and virtues which we dare conceive in boyhood and pursue as men, the unreach'd paradise of our despair, which o'er-informs the pencil and the pen, and overpowers the page where it would bloom again? cxxiii who loves, raves -- 'tis youth's frenzy -- but the ...