>In 1994, American literary critic and Yale humanities professor Harold Bloom published a book entitled The Western Canon. In it, he defended the very concept of a “canon” by discussing 26 of its central writers (including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe, Tolstoy, Ibsen, and Borges).
>At the end of the book is a lengthy appendix–over 35 double-columned pages!–in four parts, containing those writers he considers canonical.
>According to Josh Jones (on Open Culture), “Bloom later disavowed the list, claiming that his editor insisted on it.” Nevertheless, it’s an entertaining exercise, and contains a few gems I hadn’t known about before.
lol
Σικελιανός; Σίγουρα πολλοί που ασχολούνται με ποίηση θα διαφωνούσαν.
αν πιανει και 19ο αιωνα, ειναι περιεργο που δεν εχει σολωμο, νομιζω.
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>In 1994, American literary critic and Yale humanities professor Harold Bloom published a book entitled The Western Canon. In it, he defended the very concept of a “canon” by discussing 26 of its central writers (including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe, Tolstoy, Ibsen, and Borges).
>At the end of the book is a lengthy appendix–over 35 double-columned pages!–in four parts, containing those writers he considers canonical.
>According to Josh Jones (on Open Culture), “Bloom later disavowed the list, claiming that his editor insisted on it.” Nevertheless, it’s an entertaining exercise, and contains a few gems I hadn’t known about before.
lol
Σικελιανός; Σίγουρα πολλοί που ασχολούνται με ποίηση θα διαφωνούσαν.
αν πιανει και 19ο αιωνα, ειναι περιεργο που δεν εχει σολωμο, νομιζω.