Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of numerous publications including A Map of Misreading, Yeats, The Book of J, The American Religion, The Western Canon, and Omens of the Millennium.
From reviews of the first edition: <br> Bloom has helped to make the study of Romantic poetry as intellectually and spiritually challenging a branch of literary studies as one may find. --The New York Times Book Review<br> This book will assuredly come to be valued as a major twentieth-century statement on the subject of tradition and individual talent. --David J. Gordon, The Yale Review<br>