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Also Known As Allan David Bloom
Born September 14, 1930 • Indianapolis • Indiana
Died October 7, 1992 (aged 62) • Chicago • Illinois
Notable Works “The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students”
Subjects Of Study higher education
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Richard Howard
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Donald Justice
American poet and editor
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Ezra Pound
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Robert Bly
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H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
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Eric Hoffer
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Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
Samuel Putnam
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Dudley Fitts
American teacher, critic, poet and translator
Horace Gregory
American poet and critic
Richmond Lattimore
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Hovey, Richard
Richard Hovey
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Kenneth Rexroth
American poet and painter
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
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Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
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Florio, engraving by William Hole, 1611
John Florio
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