Harold Bloom couldn't possibly have had me in mind when he coined the phrase "the anxiety of influence."

Harold Bloom believes it to be an experiment in stream of consciousness writing.

Instead, the poem, according to Harold Bloom, "has little to do with the accepted myth".

Harold Bloom tells us that all strong writers kill the father before them.

Harold Bloom turned the subject into an entire theory of poetry.

"All religion depends on revelation," Harold Bloom is heard to say.

IN a certain sense, since the beginning of his remarkable career as a critic and teacher Harold Bloom has been telling the same story.

Word on the street had it that a certain Harold Bloom was deeply involved in the whole business.

Harold Bloom wrote a book about him; so did Sartre.

Harold Bloom, the critic, describes him as a "poet of the most profound subjectivity."