Bloom Harold. The Western Canon. The Books and School of the Ages

NY - London: Harcourt Brace, 1994. — 560 p.Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list-it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works of the western literary tradition and essential writers of the ages. The Western Canon was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Одна из самых известных книг Гарольда Блума, посвященная проблеме литературного канона и спискам наиболее канонических текстов всех времен и народов.On the Canon. Elegy for the Canon.
The Aristocratic Age.
Shakespeare, center of the Canon.
The Strangeness of Dante.