Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (born 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his unique and controversial theories of poetic influence, and his aesthetic approach to literature and opposition to feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, poststructuralist (deconstructive and semiotic) literary criticism. He is additionally known for his prodigious literary output, particularly for a literary critic. Bloom is a 1985 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.