Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
—Harold Bloom
Topics: Solitude
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
—Harold Bloom
Topics: Criticism
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
—Harold Bloom
Topics: Criticism
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike—and I don’t think there really is a distinction between the two—are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.
—Harold Bloom
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George Edward Woodberry American Literary Critic
Diana Trilling American Literary Critic
Bayard Taylor American Poet
Anatole Broyard American Literary Critic
Van Wyck Brooks American Literary Critic
John Churton Collins English Literary Critic
F. L. Lucas English Literary Critic
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Scottish Judge, Critic
William H. Gass American Short Story Writer
George Jean Nathan American Drama Critic