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Harold Bloom
1930–2019
Harold Bloom was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. An influential literary and cultural critic, author, editor, and professor of humanities at Yale University, Bloom wrote widely on poetry, literature, aesthetics, and religion. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Fellowships.
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Kabbalah and Criticism
Freud says that primal anxiety was toxic, and that the primal limitation was of inspiration. If the anxiety of influence be imaged as a lack of breathing space, then the voluntary limitation that…