Poets and Poems
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Bloom considers poets Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridege, William Butler Yeats, and many others. Ages 16+.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (1930–2019), author of The Anxiety of Influence, The Western Canon, and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, was Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was awarded their highest honor, the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism.
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