The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature, in which Bloom defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
" As Bloom writes movingly: "One of my concerns throughout Possessed by Memory is with the beloved dead. Most of my good friends in my generation have departed. Their voices are still in my ears. I find that they are woven into what I read.
The role of civil disobedience, the act of defying society for the greater good, has been a theme of many famous and often controversial literary works.
Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing on twenty essayists and prophets.
This text includes an introduction by Harold Bloom and an extensive biography of Robert Frost. Thomas March, Malcolm Cowly, and Seamus Heaney also examine the work of this poet.
As he reflects on a lifetime lived among the works explored in this book, Bloom has himself, in this magnificent achievement, created a work touched by the daemon.
He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understanding—over the course of ...
Each volume opens with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom in which he offers his insights into the author's work, followed by a representative selection of the best contemporary criticism of the writer.