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'''Harold Bloom''' (born [[July 11]], [[1930]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[professor]] and [[literary critic]]. Bloom is known as a defender of the 19th-century [[Romantic]] poets at a time when their reputations were at a low ebb, the author of a controversial theory of poetic influence, and more recently as the advocate of an aesthetic approach to literature against [[Marxist]], [[New Historicism|New Historicist]], and other ideologically-driven trends in academic [[literary criticism]]. He is the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at [[Yale University]] and Berg Professor of English at [[New York University]]

'''Harold Bloom''' (born [[July 11]], [[1930]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[professor]] and [[literary critic]].

Bloom is known as a defender of the 19th-century [[Romantic]] poets at a time when their reputations were at a low ebb, the author of a controversial theory of poetic influence, and more recently as the advocate of an aesthetic approach to literature against [[Marxist]], [[New Historicism|New Historicist]], and other ideologically-driven trends in academic [[literary criticism]]. He is the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at [[Yale University]] and Berg Professor of English at [[New York University]]

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