That man with this surname wrote The Closing of the American Mind, which shares some themes with a book by another man of this surname, The Western Canon.
A man with this surname won acclaim for his literature classes at Cornell while writing Shakespeare's Politics but left the U.S. for several years after Cornell gave in to student demands to teach "relevant" books. That man with this surname argued that the West is not "just another culture" in a book with a forty-page chapter on the place of contemporary rock music in history, that identifies "the search for the good life" as "the real motive of education" and denounces relativism. That man with this surname wrote The Closing of the American Mind, which shares some themes with a book by another man of this surname, The Western Canon. For 10 points, give this common surname of two literary critics, Chicago-based Allan and longtime Yale Shakespeare theorist Harold.
A man with this surname won acclaim for his literature classes at Cornell while writing Shakespeare's Politics but left the U.S. for several years after Cornell gave in to student demands to teach "relevant" books.
Bloom [or Allan David Bloom; or Harold Bloom] 