“An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past. Bloom's book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition and passion. In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not mention individual works by a canonical. Placing William Shakespeare at the “center of the canon,” Bloom examines the literary contributions of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Pablo Neruda, and many others. I would think that, of all the books that are in this first list, once the reader is conversant. 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 essential writers of the western literary tradition ( The New York Times Book Review). Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list-it is a “heroically brave, formidably learned” defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western Canon.
NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. Blooms list would go the traditional route- compare Milton to Wordsworth and everyone else to them, making Milton and Wordsworth his peaks of aesthetic quality and superior writers. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written. E.The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. The Western Canon is Bloom's best-known book alongside The Anxiety of Influence (1973), and was a surprise bestseller upon its release in the United States.Bloom argues against what he. NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Blooms The Western Canon is more than a required reading listit is a 'heroically brave, formidably learned' defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western Canon.
Jorge Luis Borges "Tlon, Ugbar, Orbis Tertius"Ī. Guy de Maupassant "Madame Tellier's Establishment" and "The Horla"Įrnest Hemingway "Hill Like White Elephants" and "God Rest You Merry, Gentleman" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "A Sea Change"įlannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People" and "A View of the Woods" Harold Bloom the Western Canon 1994 A Reflection on the CultureWars: Harold Bloom, Gore ReviewofThe Breaking of the Vessels by Harold Bloom Bloom Harold - Cuentos Y Cuentistas. Ivan Turgenev "Bezhin Lea" and "Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands."Īnton Chekhov "The Kiss" and "The Student" and "The Lady with the Dog"
Harold Bloom in How to Read and Why sets out the following list of books, books which he believes have the power to instill in one a life-long love of aesthetically and intellectually great literature.
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