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Harold Bloom was America’s best known literary critic for at least 30 years. Reading Bloom’s books were often a guilty pleasure for me. He wrote effusively in superlatives about his favorite writers, the writers of the “traditional” Wes... More »
4 stars Let me start out by saying I wanted to give it 4½ stars but Yelp doesn’t allow that. I don’t think it merits five stars because sometimes it’s messy or requires specialized equipment that I’m not always sure how to use. Frequently it’s a lit... More »
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom Review By Dan Geddes 11 February 2001 See also reviews of Bloom’s The Book of J, The Anxiety of Influence, and Omens of Millenium. Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon reads like a work a desperation; a work from a man con... More »