So Harold Bloom died one day before the Library of America published his THE AMERICAN CANON

So what? you say?? No, no, it does not matter how many books Bloom had written and how many more he had edited, he wanted to be around when THE AMERICAN CANON was published. If he had been born in November instead of July, he would have been looking forward to being 90. Great people are alive until they are dead, if they are good and lucky.
Anyhow, hurray for the new book.