Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was a Yale literary critic and one of the most prominent and controversial scholars of English literature in the 20th century, known for The Anxiety of Influence, The Western Canon, and his concept of misreading.
Developed the theory of the 'anxiety of influence' in poetic tradition; defended the Western Canon against multiculturalist revisionism.
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