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– ) 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 ...
Harold Bloom’sThe Anxiety of Influencemust have come to its first readers as a balm. Bloom argues that new poems originate mainly from old poems; that the primary struggle of the young poet is against the old masters. He, the ephebe, must “clear imaginative space” (1) for himself thro...
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
(2015) Bloom discussed 12 writers he believed were the “creators of the American Sublime.” In 2017 he publishedFalstaff: Give Me Life, the first in the Shakespeare’s Personalities series. In addition, he selected the content of, and provided commentary for, the collectionThe Best Poems of...