Reading the Western Canon

Been trying to read more classics one way or another. 

The list The Western Canon

Asserting that Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were greater than any Western poet in the last century and a half, Bloom was guilty of what Edmund Wilson called “the sometimes all too conscious American literary self-glorification which is a part of our American imperialism.” 

But Harold Bloom was correct they are the greatest american poets. 

See March 18, 2014 New York Times

New York Times