Harold Bloom, critic who championed Western canon, dies at 89 | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Harold Bloom, critic who championed Western canon, dies at 89 | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Updated: October 15, 2019 10:59:06 am

Harold Bloom, critic who championed Western canon, dies at 89

In addition to his wife, Bloom is survived by two sons, Daniel and David.

FILE — Harold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books, died on Monday, October 14. (Source: Jim Wilson/The New York Times)

Harold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books that appeared not only on college syllabuses but also — unusual for an academic — on bestseller lists, died Monday at a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. He was 89.