do we excpet Bloom's list of western canon?
Do we excpet Bloom's list of western canon?
Jacob Mitchell
Connor Rivera
lol *accept
David Hill
Evidently not.
Ethan Ward
There are women, blacks. jews, gays, and liberals in it, so no.
Noah Brooks
Bloom himself doesn't even accept it.
>Vice: I was hoping to talk first about The Western Canon.
>Harold Bloom: Do you mean the whole category, or what I wrote about it?
>I mean your book.
>But can we make an agreement? Let’s forget that damned list.
>Ha. Do you mean the appendix in the back of the book that lists all the canonical works?
>The list was not my idea. It was the idea of the publisher, the editor, and my agents. I fought it. I finally gave up. I hated it. I did it off the top of my head. I left out a lot of things that should be there and I probably put in a couple of things that I now would like to kick out. I kept it out of the Italian and the Swedish translations, but it’s in all the other translationsabout 15 or 18 of them. I’m sick of the whole thing. All over the world, including here, people reviewed and attacked the list and didn’t read the book. So let’s agree right now, my dear. We will not mention the list.
>It’s a deal.
>I wish I had nothing to do with it. I literally did it off the top of my head, since I have a pretty considerable memory, in about three hours one afternoon.
Asher Myers
>t. brainlet
Oliver Flores
What is the list? Do you have an infographic?
Benjamin Bailey
Harry, I've reached the top!
Charles Morales
Nathaniel Phillips
en.wikipedia.org
The Harvard Classics and Modern Library are fine too, but honestly, if youve been reading seriously for 20 or 30 years as an honest, self critical academic, your own canon is valid enough. The real value is Bloom's knowledge base in introducing Ibsen or Neruda