Memorial service for Harold Bloom on Jan. 18

There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Jan. 18 in honor of Harold Bloom, world-renowned literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, who died on Oct. 14 at age 89.

The ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. All are welcome.

Bloom was widely regarded as the most recognized literary critic in America. Among his master works are “The Anxiety of Influence” (1973), “The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages” (1994), and “How to Read and Why” (2000).