' An impressive workdeeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past. The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer. Blooms book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economistand Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition and passion. The Western Canon : The Books and School of the Ages. 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 ofthe western literary tradition ( The New York Times Book Review). Harold Blooms The Western Canonis 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. NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 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 tightly focused on only 26 authors, but in a series of four appendices, Bloom lists the hundreds of other names he considers canonical.
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