Interview with Harold Bloom, May 5, 1980

Project: Robert Penn Warren Oral History Project

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Interview Summary

Bloom examines his friendship with Robert Penn Warren, and how it began. Bloom's admiration for the most recent work of Warren is discussed. The evolutionary and stylistic change in Warren's writing is also documented. Bloom also highlights the similarities between the latest work of Warren to that of Ralph Waldo Emerson at the end of his own life.

Interview Accession

1980oh066_rpw023

Interviewee Name

Harold Bloom

Interviewer Name

Susan E. Allen

Interview Date

1980-05-05

Interview Keyword

Yale University Friendship

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Bloom, Harold Interview by Susan E. Allen. 05 May. 1980. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Bloom, H. (1980, May 05). Interview by S. E. Allen. Robert Penn Warren Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Bloom, Harold, interview by Susan E. Allen. May 05, 1980, Robert Penn Warren Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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