Further Reading
- Alter, Robert. "Beauty and the Best." The New Republic 211, No. 15 (10 October 1994): 36-42. (Review discusses Bloom's criteria for choosing authors for the literary canon.)
- Berman, Jaye. "Harold Bloom and Judaism." Midstream: A Monthly Jewish Review XXXIII, No. 8 (October 1987): 42-44. (Examines Bloom's use of Judaism in his theoretical structure.)
- Brown, Erella. "The Ozick-Bloom Controversy: Anxiety of Influence, Usurpation as Idolatry, and the Identity of Jewish American Literature." Studies in American Jewish Literature 11, No. 1 (Spring 1992): 62-82. (Discusses the differing theoretical views of Cynthia Ozick and Harold Bloom regarding Jewish-American literature.)
- Caruth, Cathy. "Speculative Returns: Bloom's Recent Work." MLN 98, No. 5 (December 1983): 1286-96. (Essay discusses Agon and The Breaking of the Vessels and their contribution toward the development of Bloom's theories.)
- Donoghue, Denis. "Creation from Catastrophe." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4139 (30 July 1982): 811-12. (Review provides a brief summary of Bloom's theory and its development over the course of his publications.)
- Edmundson, Mark. "Bloom's Giant Forms." London Review of Books 11, No. 11 (1 June 1989): 13-14. (Review of Ruin the Sacred Truths in which Bloom is discussed in terms of the Romantics.)
- Godzich, Wlad. "Harold Bloom as Rhetorician." Centrum 6, No. 1 (Spring 1978): 43-9. (Essay explores reasons why Bloom is sometimes disregarded by his peers.)
- Hollander, John. "The Anxiety of Influence." New York Times Book Review (4 March 1973): 27-8. (Review of The Anxiety of Influence in which Bloom is credited with enriching the study of Romantic poetry.)
- Norris, Christopher. "Harold Bloom: A Poetics of Reconstruction." British Journal of Aesthetics 20, No. 1 (Winter 1980): 67-76. (Essay discusses the challenge presented to the traditional school of "New Criticism" at Yale by Bloom's theory of poetics.)
- Robinson, Douglas. "Dear Harold." New Literary History 20, No. 1 (Autumn 1988): 239-52. (Essay takes the form of a letter to Harold Bloom explaining Bloom's influence on the author and his theoretical approach.)
- Silver, Daniel J. "The Battle of the Books." Commentary 98, No. 6 (December 1994): 60, 62-3. (Review of The Western Canon that questions Bloom's methods in making canonical selections.)
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