https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/14/harold-bloom-literary-critic-yale-professor-dies-89

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Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal The Anxiety of Influence and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of western civilization amid modern trends, died on Monday at age 89.

Bloom’s wife, Jeanne, said that he had been failing health, although he continued to write books and was teaching as recently as last week. Yale said Bloom died at a New Haven, Connecticut, hospital.