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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.
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.
Modernist poetry is a broad term for poetry written between 1890 and 1970 in the tradition of Modernist literature. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Schools within it include already 20th-century Acmeist poetry , Imagism , Objectivism , and the British Poetry Revival .
The best of Western literature is considered to be the Western canon. The list of works in the Western canon varies according to the critic's opinions on Western culture and the relative importance of its defining characteristics. Different literary periods held great influence on the literature of Western and European countries, with movements ...
In addition to considering how much influence a writer had had on later writers, Bloom proposed the concept of "canonical strangeness" (cf. uncanny) as a benchmark of a literary work's merit. The Western Canon also included a list – noted by the general public with widespread interest – of the Western works from antiquity to the present ...
A postmodern literary movement srarted ca. 1970, where writers use their speaking voice to present fiction, poetry, monologues, and storytelling arising from Beat poetry, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights movement in the urban centers of the United States. [133]
Michelle Cliff (1946–2016), Jamaican-US author of fiction, prose poems and literary criticism Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), educator and Poet Laureate of Maryland Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), English poet, educationalist and assistant to Florence Nightingale
The poem Beowulf, which often begins the traditional canon of English literature, is the most famous work of Old English literature. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has also proven significant for historical study, preserving a chronology of early English history.