“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. 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. 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). The Western Canon by Harold Bloom books fantasy Brian Aldiss David Lindsay Fantasy Criticism Freud Harold Bloom Kafka Mervyn Peake Shakespeare Ursula Le Guin William Mayne 4th April 2015 Published in 1994, Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon is a celebration of great literature. 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 Issue 136, Fall 1995 It seemed obvious in planning a number devoted to humor that The Paris Review should approach Harold Bloom, the distinguished Yale academic and critic, author of the recently published The Western Canon, to see if he would supply a canon of Western humornothing too lengthy, of course, but that anything he. The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.
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