Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale. He is the author of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine and American Religious Poems: An Anthology. His most recent book is Fallen Angels, with illuminations by Mark Podwal. (November 2008)

From the Review

November 6, 2008: The Glories of Yiddish

History of the Yiddish Language by Max Weinreich, edited by Paul Glasser, translated from the Yiddish by Shlomo Noble with the assistance of Joshua A. Fishman

November 22, 2007: Who Will Praise the Lord?

The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter

June 28, 2007: The Lost Jewish Culture

The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492 translated, edited, and with an introduction by Peter Cole

April 22, 1993: Operation Roth

Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth

March 31, 1988: Literature as the Bible

The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter, edited by Frank Kermode

September 26, 1985: On the Heights

Selections from George Eliot's Letters edited by Gordon S. Haight

May 30, 1985: The Flight of the Hawk

New and Selected Poems: 1923–1985 by Robert Penn Warren

November 22, 1984: Mr. America

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter by John McAleer

October 11, 1984: Inescapable Poe

Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales edited by Patrick F. Quinn

Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews edited by G.R. Thompson

July 19, 1984: The Central Man

Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal

April 26, 1984: The Real Me

Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig

January 19, 1984: Apocalypse Then

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Vol. I: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments edited by James H. Charlesworth

October 13, 1983: Sumerian Feminism

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer by Diane Wolkstein, by Samuel Noah Kramer

April 28, 1983: Norman in Egypt

Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer

February 17, 1983: Memory and Its Discontents

Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

September 23, 1982: From Moses to Gilboa

The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse edited and translated by T. Carmi

July 15, 1976: Driving Out Demons

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim

Books by Harold Bloom

Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003)
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002)
How to Read and Why (2000)
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998)
Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996)
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994)
The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation (1992)
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present (1989)
Poetics of Influence: New and Selected Criticism (1988)
The Breaking of the Vessels (1982)
Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (1982)
The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy (1979)
Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate (1977)
Figures of Capable Imagination (1976)
Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens (1976)
Kabbalah and Criticism (1975)
A Map of Misreading (1975)
The Anxiety of Influence; A Theory of Poetry (1973)
Yeats (1972)
The Ringers in the Tower; Studies in Romantic Tradition (1971)
The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (1971)
Blake's Apocalypse; A Study in Poetic Argument (1970)
Romanticism and Consciousness; Essays in Criticism (1970)