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The Western Canon: the Books and School Of the ages
[Paperback - 1995]
harold bloom
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Literary Collections
Publisher: Riverhead Books | ISBN: 9781573225144 | Pages: 560
Shipping Weight: .578 | Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

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More than a required reading list, The Western Canon is a major work of vision by the foremost literary critic in America. In defining the essential masterworks of world literature--the Western Canon--Bloom enlightens and inspires all readers to return to the special joys of reading that our literary tradition offers. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

About the Author

Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and America s foremost literary critic. He was the author of more than thirty books, including the New York Times best sellers The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and The Book of J as well as A Visionary Company, The Anxiety of Influence, and Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism. He was a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees.

David Mikics is the Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the editor of The Annotated Emerson and the author, most recently, of Bellow s People and Slow Reading in a Hurried Age. His reviews and articles have appeared in Tablet, the New Republic, and the New York Times.

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