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Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955.
After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts.
His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible.
Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Guardian Review
Does the selection in my local library - predominantly Agatha Christie and books about the two world wars - reflect the reading preferences of its audio customers, I wonder - or their age? Probably the latter since a lot of them are still on cassette which, until this new Hachette edition of Remarque's classic German novel came out, was all you could get. Eighty years after it was first published, it is still the definitive book about not just the Great War but all wars. Remarque's descriptions of the horror and hopelessness of war have been compared to the poems of Wilfred Owen. This is his narrator, 19-year-old Private Paul Baumer, describing the aftermath of a frontline attack in which 118 of B Company's 150 soldiers have been killed. "The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade has been scraped along the spine. Our legs won't function, our hands are trembling and our bodies are like thin membranes stretched over barely repressed madness, holding in what would otherwise be an unrestrained outburst of endless screams." In the 18 months after its publication it sold 2.5m copies in 25 languages, but was later banned and burned by the Nazis. I'm not sure if it's the way the narrator tells it or the way Tom Lawrence reads it that makes it so gut-wrenchingly sad. One by one the small group of schoolfriends Paul joined up with and who have become closer than his family disappear or die. Birdsong, Sunset Song, Regeneration, Goodbye to All That, How Many Miles to Babylon? - there are so many memorable novels about the first world war, but if I had to choose just one, this would have to be it. - Sue Arnold Does the selection in my local library - predominantly Agatha Christie and books about the two world wars - reflect the reading preferences of its audio customers, I wonder - or their age? Probably the latter since a lot of them are still on cassette which, until this new Hachette edition of Remarque's classic German novel came out, was all you could get. Eighty years after it was first published, it is still the definitive book about not just the Great War but all wars. - Sue Arnold.
