/lit/ - Literature

Harold Bloom Edition

Critical Books
>The Western Canon by Bloom
>The United States by Gore Vidal
>The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
>How Fiction Works by James Wood
>Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson

Critics
>T.S. Eliot
>Harold Bloom
>Virginia Woolf
>Henry James
>Samuel Johnson

Book Reviewers
>Steve Donoghue (Openletters)
>Sam Sacks (WSJ)
>???

>I began as a scholar of the romantic poets. In the 1950s and early 1960s, it was understood that the great English romantic poets were Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. But today they are Felicia Hemans, Charlotte Smith, Mary Tighe, Laetitia Landon, and others who just can't write. A fourth-rate playwright like Aphra Behn is being taught instead of Shakespeare in many curriculums across the country.
Did Bloom have a point or was he just a sexist? All the writers he is deriding are women held in high esteem.

The canon

>>19428249
The rest of the Canon

"Canon? THE Canon? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time..."

And still is. Prove me wrong.

What are your thoughts on Jew Harold Bloom's list of books to teach you how to read well?

Short Stories

Ivan Turgenev "Bezhin Lea" and "Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands."

Anton Chekhov "The Kiss" and "The Student" and "The Lady with the Dog"

Guy de Maupassant "Madame Tellier's Establishment" and "The Horla"

Ernest Hemingway "Hill Like White Elephants" and "God Rest You Merry, Gentleman" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "A Sea Change"

Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People" and "A View of the Woods"

Vladimir Nabokov's "The Vane Sisters"

Jorge Luis Borges "Tlon, Ugbar, Orbis Tertius"

Tommaso Landolfi "Gogol's Wife"

Italo Calvino "Invisible Cities"

Poems

A. E. Housman "Into My Heart an Air That Kills"

William Blake "The Sick Rose"

Walter Savage Landor "On His Seventy-fifth Birthday"

Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Eagle" and "Ulysses

Robert Browning "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"

Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

Emily Dickinson "Poem 1260 - Because That You Are Going"

Emily Bronte "Stanzas: Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning"

Popular Ballads "Sir Patrick Spence" and "The Unquiet Grave"

Anonymous "Tom O'Bedlam"

Shakespeare's "Sonnet 121 - Tis Better to Be Vil Than Vile Esteemed" and "Sonnet 129 - The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame" and "Sonnet 144 - Two Loves I have, of Comfort and Despair"

John Milton "Paradise Lost"

William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" and "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Triumph of Life"

John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Novels - Part I

Miguel de Cervantes "Don Quixote"

Stendhal "The Charterhouse of Parma"

Jane Austen "Emma"

Charles Dickens "Great Expectations"

Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

Henry James "The Portrait of a Lady"

Marcel Proust "In Search of Lost Time"

Thomas Mann "The Magic Mountain"

Plays

Shakespeare "Hamlet"

Henrik Ibsen "Hedda Gabler"

Oscar Wilde "The Importance of Being Earnest"

Novels - Part II

Herman Melville "Moby Dick"

William Faulkner "As I Lay Dying"

Nathanael West "Miss Lonelyhearts"

Thomas Pynchon "The Crying of Lot 49"

Cormac McCarthy "Blood Meridian"

Ralph Ellison "Invisible Man"

Toni Morrison "Song of Solomon"

Did the serious study of literature in academia die with him?

>be born in 84
>actual expert (in some cases to a professional level) on many things that became popular in the 90s and 00s
>state educated opinions
>constantly informed by people born in the 90s and 00s that I don't know what I'm talking about, am lying, or remembering stuff wrong
>the other day zoomer friend found an article from 2001 that suggested at least 5 different profoundly unpopular opinions I held were closer to the truth than the memes that get circulated here, reddit, and social media
>friend has recently began calling me The Giver

Seriously, any books with this subject matter besides The Giver? I find the subject of revisionism fascinating, especially as it seems to become more prevalent and extreme while simultaneously being ignored/accepted by civilization.

Are there really people on this board that believe improper use of apostrophes is a sign of intelligence? I've seen it argued here multiple times and the misuse of "it's" is becoming so common among pseuds I'm beginning to believe they weren't being ironic.