The Western Canon: The Books and School of the AgesNATIONAL BESTSELLER NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Heroically brave, formidably learned… The Western Canon is a passionate demonstration of why some writers have triumphantly escaped the oblivion in which time buries almost all human effort. It inspires hope… that what humanity has long cherished, posterity will also.” –The New York Times Book Review Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list -- it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works of the western literary tradition and essential writers of the ages: the "Western Canon." Harold Bloom's book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition mixed with passion. For years to come it will serve as an inspiration to return to the joys of reading our literary tradition offers us. |
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... perhaps Pound and William Carlos Williams . Of more recent figures , I would list Robert Penn Warren , Theodore Roethke , Elizabeth Bishop , James Merrill , John Ashbery , A. R. Ammons , May Swenson . The drama- tists are less ...
... perhaps Pound and William Carlos Williams . Of more recent figures , I would list Robert Penn Warren , Theodore Roethke , Elizabeth Bishop , James Merrill , John Ashbery , A. R. Ammons , May Swenson . The drama- tists are less ...
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... perhaps some mischief , I added that it made no difference therefore whether Hedda was a woman or a man , and just as actresses have played Hamlet , perhaps some actor would yet play Hedda . The audience was much happier when the ...
... perhaps some mischief , I added that it made no difference therefore whether Hedda was a woman or a man , and just as actresses have played Hamlet , perhaps some actor would yet play Hedda . The audience was much happier when the ...
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... perhaps even a future , whereas for jealousy there is only present time , however retrospective the jealousy may be ... perhaps , would shock the average person with their avowals . They live perhaps less exclusively beneath the sway of ...
... perhaps even a future , whereas for jealousy there is only present time , however retrospective the jealousy may be ... perhaps , would shock the average person with their avowals . They live perhaps less exclusively beneath the sway of ...
Contents
AN ELEGY FOR THE CANON | 15 |
THE ARISTOCRATIC AGE | 41 |
SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF THE CANON | 43 |
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