The American canon : literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon /
"Harold Bloom is our greatest living student of literature, "a colossus among critics" (The New York Times) and a "master entertainer" (Newsweek). Over the course of a remarkable career spanning more than half a century, in such best-selling books as The Western Canon and Sh...
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New York, N.Y. :
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Table of Contents:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Henry James (1843-1916)
- Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
- Willa Cather (1873-1947)
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
- Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
- William Faulkner (1897-1962)
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
- Hart Crane (1899-1932)
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
- Nathanael West (1903-1940)
- Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
- Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
- Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)
- Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
- Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
- James Merrill (1926-1995)
- A.R. Ammons (1926-2001), John Ashbery (1927-2017), W.S. Merwin (1927-2019)
- Edward Albee (1928-2016)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
- Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
- Philip Roth (1933-2018)
- Cormac McCarthy (b. 1933)
- Jay Wright (b. 1934)
- Don DeLillo (b. 1936)
- Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937).