This week’s episode of The Virtual Memories Show features a conversation with the great literary critic and teacher Harold Bloom. We talked about a lot of books and poems (and he recited some great poems). Here’s the list:

• The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime – Harold Bloom
• The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages – Harold Bloom
• The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life – Harold Bloom
• The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry – Harold Bloom
• The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy – Harold Bloom
• The Complete Poems of Hart Crane – Hart Crane (Bloom recited To Brooklyn Bridge)
• John Ashbery Collected Poems 1956-1987 – John Ashbery (Bloom recited Wet Casements)
• The Collected Poems: The Corrected Edition – Wallace Stevens (Bloom recited An Ordinary Evening in New Haven, Tea at the Palaz of Hoon, and Decorations)
• Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman (Bloom recited As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life)
• La Figlia Che Piange – TS Eliot
• Little Gidding – TS Eliot
• All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville
• Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady – Samuel Richardson
• Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
• Bleak House – Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
• Middlemarch – George Eliot
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy
• European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages – Ernst Robert Curtius
• Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
• Land of Unlikeness – Robert Lowell
• Lord Weary’s Castle – Robert Lowell
• Life Studies and For the Union Dead – Robert Lowell
• The Dream Songs: Poems – John Berryman
• Selected Poems – Conrad Aiken
• The Changing Light at Sandover – James Merrill
• Don Juan – Lord Byron
• Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
• American Pastoral – Philip Roth
• Underworld – Don DeLillo
• The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
• Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
• Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
• Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
• A Cool Million – Nathanael West
• It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
• Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995
• The Bell – Iris Murdoch
• Flight from the Enchanter – Iris Murdoch
• The Sea, the Sea – Iris Murdoch
• Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
• The Philosopher’s Pupil – Iris Murdoch

Later this month, the first Fear of a Square Planet podcast will feature a segment from Bloom about what he’s reading lately! (along with selections from Keith Knight, Molly Crabapple, and Carol Tyler)