"The King James Bible" stands at "the sublime summit of literature in English", sharing the honour only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significa...

"Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it", writes Harold Bloom in "The Anatomy of Influence", "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate". For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of...