Harold Bloom Audio & Video

Yale professor Harold Bloom on his love of literature and his book "How to Read and Why".

Panel members focused on issues involving publishing and the marketing of electronic books, and the implications for the publishing industry.

Mr. Bloom talked about his book, How to Read and Why, published by Scribner.

Live on Sunday May 4th our In Depth guest will be Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University.

In this audio lecture provided as part of the Modern Scholar Series, noted author and literary critic Harold Bloom provides his unparalleled analysis of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett.

Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love.

Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon...