Harold Bloom

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author essayist human literary critic literary theorist university professor

Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author → essayist → human → literary critic → literary theorist → university professor →
academicDegree	PhD in English →
academicDiscipline	English literature → humanities →
awardReceived	American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism → MacArthur Fellowship →
causeOfDeath	unspecified illness →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1930-07-11 →
dateOfDeath	2019-10-14 →
educatedAt	Cornell University → Yale University →
employer	New York University → Yale University →
ethnicGroup	Jewish American →
familyName	Bloom →
fieldOfWork	Romantic poetry → Shakespeare studies → comparative literature → literary criticism → literary theory →
fullName	Harold Bloom →
givenName	Harold →
hasOccupation	critic → professor → writer →
influenced	canon formation debates → contemporary literary criticism →
influencedBy	John Milton → Ralph Waldo Emerson → Sigmund Freud → William Blake → William Shakespeare →
knownFor	defense of the Western literary canon → provocative critical style → theory of poetic influence →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Letters → Yale University faculty →
nationality	American →
notableConcept	Western canon → anxiety of influence →
notableWork	A Map of Misreading → Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds → How to Read and Why → Kabbalah and Criticism → Omens of Millennium → Poetry and Repression → Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human → The American Religion → The Anxiety of Influence → The Book of J → The Visionary Company → The Western Canon →
placeOfBirth	New York City → The Bronx →
placeOfDeath	New Haven, Connecticut →
politicalView	cultural conservative in literary matters →
religion	Judaism →
residence	New Haven, Connecticut →
sexOrGender	male →
stateOfBirth	New York →
stateOfDeath	Connecticut →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Harold Bloom →	fullName
Hart Crane →	influenced
Harold →	notableBearer