{"product_id":"the-man-who-read-everything-the-literary-letters-of-harold-bloom","title":"The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy of Influence\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTake Arms Against a Sea of Troubles\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eHeather Cass White\u003c\/b\u003e is an English professor at the University of Alabama. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBooks Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, among other volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Read Everything\u003c\/i\u003e is . . . terrific from first to last.\"--Dwight Garner, \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eIn The Man Who Read Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, an amiable collection of Bloom's epistolary exchanges--with Alvin Feinman, Northrop Frye, John Hollander, A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, James Merrill, Henri Cole and Ursula K. Le Guin--he hands out his own laurel wreaths.\"--James Campbell, \n\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I could only wish for the book to be several times longer.\"--Henry Oliver, \n\u003ci\u003eCommon Reader\u003c\/i\u003e Substack \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fascinating.\"--Malcolm Forbes, \n\u003ci\u003eWashington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With their brilliant insights, Bloom's letters give one the sense that it was a blessing to correspond with him. Thanks to this book, readers now have the chance to feel they have received that blessing.\"--Shane McCrae, author of \n\u003ci\u003eNew and Collected Hell\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Harold Bloom was an original-minded interpreter of an extraordinary range of authors. This fine selection of his letters also shows Bloom in a related role, as an influential confidant and commentator on the poets of his own generation. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Read Everything\u003c\/i\u003e will be of major interest to readers of twentieth-century poetry and criticism.\"--David Bromwich, author of \n\u003ci\u003eSkeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This exquisitely edited collection is a powerful, humanizing addition to our understanding of a great critic. You hear so many different tones--playful, loving, grave, self-doubting, angry, ecstatic, mocking, oracular, sympathetic, sorrowful. Throughout there's the pitch and energy of Bloom's thought, his need to praise, banking on feeling above all.\"--Kenneth Gross, University of Rochester \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Here is a cornucopia guaranteed to delight anyone drawn to the infectious sensibility of 'the man who read everything, ' whose ardent love of books still inspires so many. Heather Cass White's edition will be required reading for Bloomians of every stripe.\"--David Mikics, author of \n\u003ci\u003eBellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life into Art\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Here is Harold Bloom as we knew him and as we did not: as the elevated spirit who would be a poet but could not, so instead became a poem in himself. The dazzling first and last and never-again Harold Bloom.\"--Cynthia Ozick, author of \n\u003ci\u003eIn a Yellow Wood: Collected Stories and Essays\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terrific from first to last.\"--Dwight Garner, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an intimate view of one of the most famous literary critics of the last century. In correspondence with Alvin Feinman, Northrop Frye, A. R. Ammons, John Hollander, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Henri Cole, and Ursula K. Le Guin, we see Bloom developing his groundbreaking theory of poetic influence, transforming himself into a public intellectual, and reckoning with the meaning of his own legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Bloom's public persona was oracular, sure, and often combative, his letters are inquiring and provisional, revealing his overarching obsession with good writing. The presence of love, as the letters show, was always vital to how Bloom worked as a reader. Filled with delightful anecdotes and poignant observations, these letters--many of them published here for the first time--offer a new window onto twentieth-century letters and Bloom's long and illustrious career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780300283839, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496132903190,"sku":"9780300283839","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780300283839.jpg?v=1783053706","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/the-man-who-read-everything-the-literary-letters-of-harold-bloom","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}