How to Read and Why (2001)
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Literary Criticism Harold Bloom recommends what to read and argues for it: short stories, poems, novels and plays, each…
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom is represented on Book-Sharing with 13 books, especially in Literary Criticism, Fools and jesters in literature. Popular entries include How to Read and Why, The Anxiety of Influence.
The Anxiety of Influence (1997)
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Literary Criticism Harold Bloom's most influential work on the theory of poetic influence. A central work of criticism …
A Map of Misreading (2003)
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Literary Criticism Harold Bloom's second work on revisionism theory demonstrates how patterns of imagery in poems repre…
The Trickster (2010)
Fools and jesters in literatureA volume in Bloom's Literary Themes series on exploration and colonization in world literature: Hear…
Aldous Huxley (2010)
A collection of critical essays on Aldous Huxley and his work, with a chronology of his life. Edited…
George Orwell, Updated Edition (2009)
A volume from Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Views series, collecting essays of literary criticism o…
Stephen King (2009)
Literary CriticismBiography and critical assessment of Stephen King's work. Part of Harold Bloom's series on major aut…
Essayists and Prophets (2009)
Biography & AutobiographyA collection of Harold Bloom's introductions from the Modern Critical Views series, focusing on twen…
Novelists and Novels (2009)
Literary CriticismHarold Bloom's introductions to the world's greatest novelists, including Cervantes, Dickens, Austen…
Dramatists and Dramas (2009)
Literary CriticismA collection of Harold Bloom's introductions from the Modern Critical Views series, focusing on dram…
Poets and Poems (2009)
Literary CriticismA collection of Harold Bloom's introductions from the Modern Critical Views series, focusing on poet…
The Lord of the Rings (2008)
Literary CriticismCritical essays on Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings from various schools of criticism. With an introd…
Die Kunst der Lektüre (2000)
Harold Bloom on the art of reading, through examples rather than theory.