Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from
Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and
O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better
understood the ways writers influence one another--how literary
traditions are made--and no writer has helped readers understand
this better, than Harold Bloom. Over the course of a remarkable
sixty-year career, in such bestselling books as The Western Canon,
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and How to Read and Why,
Bloom brought enormous insight and infectious enthusiasm to the
great writers of the Western tradition, from Shakespeare and
Cervantes to the British Romantics and the Russian masters. Now,
for the first time, comes a collection of his brilliant writings
about the American tradition, the ultimate guide to our nation's
literature. Assembled with David Mikics (Slow Reading in a Hurried
Age), this unprecedented collection gathers five decades' worth of
Bloom's writings-- much of it hard to find and long
unavailable--including essays, occasional pieces, and introductions
as well as excerpts from his books. It offers deep readings of 47
essential American writers, reflecting on the surprising ways they
have influenced each other across more than two centuries. The
story it tells, of American literature as a recurring artistic
struggle for selfhood, speaks to the passion and power of the
American spirit. All of the visionary American writers who have
long preoccupied Bloom Emerson and Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville,
and Dickinson, Faulkner, Crane, Frost, Stevens, and Bishop make
their appearance in The American Canon, along with Hemingway,
James, O'Connor, Ellison, Hurston, Le Guin, Ashbery and many
others. Bloom's passion for these classic writers is contagious,
and he reminds readers how they have shaped our sense of who we
are, and how they can summon us to be better versions of ourselves.
Bloom, Mikics writes, "is still our most inspirational critic,
still the man who can enlighten us by telling us to read as if our
lives depended on it: Because, he insists, they do." For readers
who want to deepen their appreciation of American literature,
there's no better place to start than The American Canon.
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