Harold Bloom has become an iconic figure in Literary Criticism in recent decades, especially when he rebelled against North American academia, where he saw the development of a self-centred exercise in literary criticism, which often lost sight of its object of study - literary works. In defence of literature, Bloom attacked the Deconstruction of his Yale colleagues, as well as the theoretical fashions of recent decades, such as Neo-historicism and Neo-Marxism. The Anguish of Prometheus traces common traits throughout Bloom's intellectual trajectory towards a broader theorisation on the nature of Literary Criticism and the reception of its bibliography.