Harold Bloom is an American writer and literary critic, the author of ???The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry,??? ???Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens,??? ???Hamlet: Poem Unlimited,??? ???The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, ???and, most notably, ???The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry and ???The Western Canon: Th