June 13, 2015

Knowing Me, Knowing You

Harold Bloom is God—at least according to Tablet Magazine and perhaps a few other contemporary publications. The New York Times has called him "a colossus." According to a contributor at the Huffington Post, he is one of the "giants," not of criticism, but of the Western canon itself. As a disciple of Emerson, who believed that all men were divine, Bloom probably wouldn't quibble with Tablet's bit of hyperbole. But we're on surer ground if we simply note that he is our most prolific and popular critic. He has written 45 books in his long career (not counting the 96-volume set of modern criticism he edited for Chelsea House) and has landed on The New York Times bestseller list three times—no mean feat for an elderly academic in our age of Kardashian.

Source: Washington Free Beacon