Reading the Western Canon

davidsmith208
Nov 11, 2017
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Been trying to read more classics one way or another.

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

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