Harold Bloom: Quick Facts

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Born	July 11, 1930 • New York City • New York
Died	October 14, 2019 (aged 89) • New Haven • Connecticut
Notable Works	“A Map of Misreading” • “Falstaff: Give Me Life” • “Figures of Capable Imagination” • “Hamlet: Poem Unlimited” • “How to Read and Why” • “Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine” • “Kabbalah and Criticism” • “Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human” • “Shelley’s Mythmaking” • “The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life” • “The Anxiety of Influence” • “The Book of J” • “The Daemon Knows” • “The Flight to Lucifer” • “The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition” • “The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry” • “The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages”