![]() ![]() Chiefly he argued for the literary superiority of the Western giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka all of them white and male, his own critics pointed out over writers favored by what he called the School of Resentment, by which he meant multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, neoconservatives and others whom he saw as often betraying literatures essential purpose. From a vaunted perch at Yale, he flew in the face of almost every trend in the literary criticism of his day. His death was confirmed by his wife, Jeanne Bloom, who said he taught his last class at Yale University on Thursday.īloom was frequently called the most notorious literary critic in America. ![]() Harold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books that appeared not only on college syllabuses but also unusual for an academic on bestseller lists, died Monday at a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. ![]()
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