Harold Bloom (11 Juli 1930 – 14 Oktober 2019) adalah seorang kritikus sastra Amerika dan Profesor Sterling ilmu Humaniora di Universitas Yale.[1] Pada tahun 2017, Bloom dianggap sebagai "kritikus sastra paling terkenal di dunia berbahasa Inggris."[2] Setelah penerbitan buku pertamanya pada tahun 1959, Bloom menulis lebih dari 50 buku,[3] termasuk lebih dari 40 buku kritik sastra, beberapa buku yang membahas agama, dan sebuah novel. Sepanjang hidupnya, ia mengedit ratusan antologi mengenai berbagai tokoh sastra dan filsafat untuk perusahaan penerbitan Chelsea House.[4] Buku-buku Bloom telah diterjemahkan ke dalam lebih dari 40 bahasa. Bloom terpilih menjadi anggota American Philosophical Society pada tahun 1995.[5]
Shelley's Mythmaking. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959.
The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961. Revised and enlarged edn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.
Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument. Anchor Books: New York: Doubleday and Co., 1963.
The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin.; edited with introduction. New York: DoubleDay, 1965.
Walter Pater: Marius the Epicurean; edition with introduction. New York: New American Library, 1970.
Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism.; edited with introduction. New York: Norton, 1970.
Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism. New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
The Breaking of the Vessels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
The Poetics of Influence: New and Selected Criticism. New Haven: Henry R. Schwab, 1988.
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
The Book of J: Translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg; Interpreted by Harold Bloom. New York: Grove Press, 1990 ISBN0-8021-4191-9
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus; translation with introduction, critical edition of the Coptic text and notes by Marvin Meyer, with an interpretation by Harold Bloom. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.
"Straight Forth Out of Self", The New York Times, June 22, 1980.
"The Heavy Burden of the Past; Poets", The New York Times, January 4, 1981.
"The Pictures of the Poet; The Painting and Drawings of William Blake, by Martin Butlin. Vol. I, Text. Vol. II, Plates" (review), The New York Times, January 3, 1982.
"A Novelist's Bible; The Story of the Stories, The Chosen People and Its God. By Dan Jacobson" (review), The New York Times, October 17, 1982.
"Isaac Bashevis Singer's Jeremiad; The Penitent, By Isaac Bashevis Singer" (review), The New York Times, September 25, 1983.
"Domestic Derangements; A Late Divorce, By A. B. Yehoshua Translated by Hillel Halkin" (review), The New York Times, February 19, 1984.
"War Within the Walls; In the Freud Archives, By Janet Malcolm" (review), The New York Times, May 27, 1984.
"His Long Ordeal by Laughter; Zuckerman Bound, A Trilogy and Epilogue. By Philip Roth" (review), The New York Times, May 19, 1985.
"A Comedy of Worldly Salvation; The Good Apprentice, By Iris Murdoch" (review), The New York Times, January 12, 1986.
"Freud, the Greatest Modern Writer" (review), The New York Times, March 23, 1986.
"Passionate Beholder of America in Trouble; Look Homeward, A Life of Thomas Wolfe. By David Herbert Donald" (review), The New York Times, February 8, 1987.
"The Book of the Father; The Messiah of Stockholm, By Cynthia Ozick" (review), The New York Times, March 22, 1987.
"A Jew Among the Cossacks; The first English translation of Isaac Babel's journal about his service with the Russian cavalry. 1920 Diary, By Isaac Babel" (review), The New York Times, June 4, 1995.
"Kaddish; By Leon Wieseltier" (review), The New York Times, October 4, 1998.
"View; On First Looking into Gates's Crichton", The New York Times, June 4, 2000.
Bloom, Harold (July 11, 2000). "Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes". The Wall Street Journal. His famous criticism of the Harry Potter series.
Bloom, Harold (October 12, 2008). "Out of Panic, Self-Reliance". The New York Times. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2023-05-31. Diakses tanggal 2022-03-02.
Burrow, Colin, "The Magic Bloomschtick" (review of Harold Bloom, The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon, edited by David Mikics, Library of America, October 2019, 426 pp., ISBN978 1 59853 640 9), London Review of Books, vol. 41, no. 22 (21 November 2019), pp. 21–25. "Harold Bloom will be remembered as a great provoker – of thought, of laughter, and of resistance. He didn't permanently reconfigure the literary landscape, but the idiosyncratic path he tracked across it is one few could follow." (Final two sentences of Burrow's review, p. 25.)
Moynihan, Robert (1986). A Recent Imagining: Interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul De Man. Archon.
Saurberg, Lars Ole (1997). Versions of the Past—Visions of the Future: The Canonical in the Criticism of T.S. Eliot, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, and Harold Bloom. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
Scherr, Barry J. (1995). D. H. Lawrence's Response to Plato: A Bloomian Interpretation. New York, NY: P. Lang.
"God and Harold at Yale". Claremont Review. April 2014. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal October 8, 2006.Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)
Lydon, Christopher (September 3, 2003). "Radio interview". Harvard Law Weblogs. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2008-10-06. Diakses tanggal 2022-03-02.
Epstein, Joseph I. (May 4, 2003). "In Depth with Harold Bloom". Interview. C-SPAN. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-10-29. Diakses tanggal 2022-03-02.
Lamb, Brian (September 3, 2000). "How to Read and Why". Interview. Booknotes. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal October 4, 2012. Diakses tanggal December 27, 2011.Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)