Can someone give me a guide to the Western Canon ?
Can someone give me a guide to the Western Canon ?
Jayden Johnson
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Robert Anderson
Start with the Symbolists.
Adrian Thompson
Start with Hesiod and Homer. You'll never actually finish those though so no point wasting brain space on the rest of it.
Jaxson Gomez
Lincoln Kelly
Harold Bloom can.
Thomas Thompson
Welp... Better get started...
Daniel Lopez
How many books are in Bloom's Canon? Is it something I'll need to dedicate my life to completing, or can I do it in a few years if I'm devoted?
Logan Campbell
It's linked 3 posts up. It will definitely take a while, but not nearly your entire life if you read often and efficiently. The better question is if it's actually worth it, economically, to invest that much time into literature of which the majority is irrelevant.
Jaxson Myers
OP here. I know that in his book, Bloom goes over 26 different authors. Does he provide a list of works? too lazy to go through Amazon reviews
Jeremiah Martinez
I know the link is there but I'm too tired to count. Frankly, right now I'm trying to get through the list of books in this "Oxford Companion to English Literature" book I have, and I imagine that alone will take a while.
Austin Morris
Thanks!
Brody Fisher
I didn't post the link, but, uh, you're welcome?
Jacob Bell
I'm mostly afraid that a lot of it will fly over my head. I just don't feel I'm intelligent enough to appreciate a lot of it.
Anthony Johnson
start with the modern ones and go backwards
Noah Baker
Canonic western literature *ended* with the symbolists
Colton Allen
Well, don't forget that a lot of the reason why a book might be hard to decipher is because you don't understand the structure and references. When you start from the beginning of books that's pretty much a non-issue. And of course reading a ton will vastly improve your reading comprehension.
Worrying whether or not you're smart enough to read something is silly. Reading makes you smart, not the other way around. You can spend as much time with any text as you want, it's not school, there are no deadlines.
Jack Miller
Truly inspiring post user. I'm gonna order a few off the Bloom list.
Logan Rivera
Most of it's in the public domain, so I wouldn't advise spending money. Unless you just have like a shit ton of disposable income.
Brandon Parker
t. Academicist
James Morris
just read whatever you want, jesus christ
Isaiah Turner
He wants to read the canon, retard
Christian Lopez
yeah bitch, some of us wanna be scholarly