What makes Bloom seem like an "impressive scholar", when he is clearly just repeating his mantra over and over again? He has two main themes, actually. Too much hatred, too much bias, and too much bigotry and repetition to get more than a solitary star for being a printed book with letters in it.
My reading experience after finishing has not changed the overall impression, but it has made me think, and I took away the second star, which initially was awarded for writing style and erudition. So killed what he loved, and emptied the Room! Who thought Great Literature faced Final Doom,
There was an old critic called Harold Bloom, “An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.”-Michel Dirda, The Washington Post Book World 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 ).
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 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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