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Harold Bloom

HAROLD BLOOM lived in New Haven and was a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Before that, he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include Possessed by Memory, The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The American Religion, and The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime. He was a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and Mexico's Alfonso Reyes International Prize. He lived in New Haven until his death on October 14, 2019, at the age of eighty-nine.
The Bright Book of Life
Possessed by Memory
The Daemon Knows
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Julius Caesar
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited
Shakespeare: Invention of the Human
Omens of Millennium

Books

The Bright Book of Life
Possessed by Memory
The Daemon Knows
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Julius Caesar
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited
Shakespeare: Invention of the Human
Omens of Millennium

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