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America's greatest literary critic about to release new book ranking authors
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:29 pm
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:29 pm
Harold Bloom is the most famous, respected literary critic of our time. 40 books have been written by him, and this one will be likely his final one since he's old as dirt.
Anyway, here are the 12 american writers who he considers the greatest in american history.
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. Herman Melville
5. Walt Whitman
6. Henry James
7. Mark Twain
8. Robert Frost
9. Wallace Stevens
10. T.S. Eliot
11. William Faulkner
12. Hart Crane
A few thoughts:
1) good for you, mr. Bloom, for keeping Ernest Hemingway off the list. His prose does not take your breath away, and his themes are cliche.
2) faulkner too low!!
quote:
In The Daemon Knows, the literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom—who has written more than 40 books—nominates 12 writers whose inner spirits most fully exemplify what he calls “the American Sublime.”
Anyway, here are the 12 american writers who he considers the greatest in american history.
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. Herman Melville
5. Walt Whitman
6. Henry James
7. Mark Twain
8. Robert Frost
9. Wallace Stevens
10. T.S. Eliot
11. William Faulkner
12. Hart Crane
A few thoughts:
1) good for you, mr. Bloom, for keeping Ernest Hemingway off the list. His prose does not take your breath away, and his themes are cliche.
2) faulkner too low!!
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Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:33 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Terrific, he agrees with my 10th grade American Lit teacher.
No Larry McMurtry, no care.
No Larry McMurtry, no care.
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:33 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I personally think Whitman is the greatest american writer but I cant say I strongly disagree with the list otherwise
This post was edited on 5/24/15 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:36 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:36 pm to VetteGuy
quote:
No Cormac McCarthy, no care.
Also, Faulkner too high, Twain too low.
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:37 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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This post was edited on 3/16/21 at 10:51 pm
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:38 pm to Pettifogger
quote:And only two homosexuals
Also, Faulkner too high, Twain too low
I don't mean on the list, I mean in this thread
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:38 pm to Pettifogger
I, too, think Cormac McCarthy should be on the list. Blood Meridian was written in 1985 and nothing written since then has sniffed that masterpiece.
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:44 pm to Pettifogger
quote:
Faulkner too high
What
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:45 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I'm sorry, but Stephen King deserves to be on that list of top-12.
I know there is a bias against recent authors, but King is a God among men.
I know there is a bias against recent authors, but King is a God among men.
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:46 pm to Roaad
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:48 pm to Roaad
The reason there is a bias against recent authors is because most recent authors, no matter how good, borrow heavily from these past geniuses, in both themes and techniques.
Plus, I really think most people, if they were exposed to both the old and the new, would say that the old works are much better.
Also, it takes times and years of critical analysis until we know for sure that a recent work is going to be an enduring one.
Plus, I really think most people, if they were exposed to both the old and the new, would say that the old works are much better.
Also, it takes times and years of critical analysis until we know for sure that a recent work is going to be an enduring one.
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:50 pm to Roaad
quote:
I'm sorry, but Stephen King deserves to be on that list of top-12.
oh god
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:53 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I would prefer a list that is genre specific. I don't think that novelists and poets should be included in the same list.
This list has a pre-1950 bias IMO.
Where is Kerouac, Welty, McMurtry and McCormac (as others have mentioned)
This list has a pre-1950 bias IMO.
Where is Kerouac, Welty, McMurtry and McCormac (as others have mentioned)
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:56 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Yankee bias, but pretty legit list nonetheless. Faulkner should be higher.
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:57 pm to HaveMercy
quote:
Where is Salinger
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:57 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Cormac McCarthy is a God. McCarthy, Faulkner, and Joyce, that's the trinity of English literature, but I get that it's hard to include a living writer on the list.
Posted on 5/24/15 at 10:58 pm to JumpingTheShark
quote:
Stephen King
A great author captures and reflects the zeitgeist of a era. In relation to the latter years of the 20th century, has anyone done this better than S King? Posing this as a legitimate question - I don't know the answer...
Posted on 5/24/15 at 11:06 pm to HaveMercy
King is a brilliant storyteller. His writing "style" is absolute garbage
That said, his body of work is immense and impressive. But idk if I could even rank him ahead of chuck palahniuk in the terms you suggest
That said, his body of work is immense and impressive. But idk if I could even rank him ahead of chuck palahniuk in the terms you suggest
Posted on 5/24/15 at 11:12 pm to Chef Leppard
Invisible Monsters 
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