To be fair about it, I am somewhat prejudiced against Bloom. A few weeks ago I decided to give it a try and found it to be a piece o’ cake, mostly. A couple years ago I found a copy dirt-cheap at some thrift store or another and its fat binding has glowered at me from the shelves since. Given Harold Bloom’s prodigious reputation, I was afraid of the thing, and so avoided it, figuring it to be fraught with lit theory of the densest sort.
The Book Nook on WYSO is presented by the Greene County Public Library with additional support from Washington-Centerville Public Library, Clark County Public Library, Dayton Metro Library, Wright Memorial Public Library, and Tipp City Public.I dimly remember when this book came out (1998) how big and important and controversial it was supposed to be. Fortunately, I had interviewed him before and during our last conversation I knew mostly what to expect.Īt the end of this interview we had a few extra minutes so I shared an essay from Shuly Cawood's new collection of flash non-fiction, What the Fortune Teller Would Have Said. His passion for language and literature was unmatched. The swirl of controversy which surrounded him was a constant.
He was often saying things that offended people. It was a daunting challenge to interview him. He was once quoted as saying they would have to remove him from the classroom "in a body bag." The author of over fifty books, Harold never retired. He gave a lecture to his final class just four days before his death in 2019. Bloom has been called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world" (Wikipedia).īloom taught at Yale for 65 years.
Professor Harold Bloom (1930-2019) made his second and final appearance on the program 25 years ago.
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