If you like Harold Bloom, read these authors
American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)
Also known as: Harold Irving Bloom, Харолд Блум, هارولد بلوم, 해롤드 블룸, ハロルド・ブルーム, 哈羅德·布魯姆
Similar authors
This list comes from an AI, not yet from reader data. Once enough readers like Harold Bloom, their data replaces the AI suggestions.
Northrop Frye1912–1991ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetGrand systematic literary criticism tracing archetypes and the Bible's influence across the Western tradition. (AI reason)
Lionel Trilling1905–1975ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHumanist literary criticism weighing the moral imagination of canonical literature. (AI reason)
George Steiner1929–2020ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetErudite, passionate essays on the Western literary canon, tragedy and the act of reading. (AI reason)
Erich Auerbach1892–1957ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSweeping close readings of representation from Homer and the Bible to modern fiction. (AI reason)
Frank Kermode1919–2010ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetElegant scholarship on Shakespeare, canon formation and narrative interpretation. (AI reason)
Show all 10
- M. H. Abrams1912–2015ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Influential studies of Romantic poetry and criticism, Bloom's own core subject. (AI reason)
Samuel Johnson1846–1901ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetAuthoritative, judgment-driven criticism of Shakespeare and the English poets. (AI reason)
- William Hazlitt1811–1893ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Vivid Romantic-era essays on Shakespeare's characters and English poets. (AI reason)
Camille Paglia1947–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetBold, sweeping readings of Western art and poetry from antiquity to the Romantics. (AI reason)
Stephen Greenblatt1943–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetAccessible, widely read interpretations of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. (AI reason)
Pick Harold Bloom and a few more favorite authors to get suggestions that fit you.
Get your own suggestionsKnown works
- Sherwood Anderson
- Bloom's Notes
- Jewish women fiction writers
- Lesbian & bisexual fiction writers
- William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Bloom's Notes)