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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
Bloom was born in New York City on July 11, 1930, [7] to Paula (née Lev) and William Bloom. He lived in the Bronx at 1410 Grand Concourse. [9] [10] He was raised as an Orthodox Jew in a Yiddish-speaking household, where he learned literary Hebrew; [11] he learned English at the age of six. [12]
A "canon" is a list of books considered to be "essential", and it can be published as a collection (such as Great Books of the Western World, Modern Library, Everyman's Library or Penguin Classics), presented as a list with an academic's imprimatur (such as Harold Bloom's [6]), or be the official reading list of a university.
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry is a 1973 book by Harold Bloom on the anxiety of influence in writing poetry. It was the first in a series of books that advanced a new "revisionary" or antithetical [1] approach to literary criticism.
1992: Stephen Spignesi: The Second Stephen King Quiz Book; 1998: Harold Bloom (Ed.): Stephen King (part of series Modern Critical Views) 1998: Stephen Spignesi: The Lost Work of Stephen King; 2001: Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner: The Stephen King Universe; A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King
These books can be published as a collection such as Great Books of the Western World, Modern Library, or Penguin Classics or presented as a list, such as Harold Bloom's list of books that constitute the Western canon. [1]
In this book, Bloom begins this practice by looking at religious groups in the United States. Bloom identifies Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James as previous scholars who practiced religious criticism of American religion. [4] He concludes that in America there is a single, dominant religion of which many nominally distinct denominations are ...