Harold Bloom

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his …

Discussed and debated, revered and reviled, Bloom's tome reinvigorates and re-examines Western Literature, arguing against the politicization of reading. His erudite passion will encourage you to hurry and finish his book so you can pick up Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens once again to rediscover their original magic. …

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry is a 1973 book by Harold Bloom. It was the first in a series of books that advanced a new "revisionary" or antithetical approach to literary criticism. Bloom's central thesis is that poets are hindered in their creative process by the ambiguous relationship they necessarily …

Neste livro, o critico literario norte-americano Harold Bloom nos conduz pelo canone literario ocidental, desde a Biblia ate o seculo XX, examinando a maneira como a literatura pode trazer sabedoria as nossas vidas. Por meio de comparacoes dos Livros de Jo e Eclesiastes, Platao e Homero, Cervantes e Shakespeare, …