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The Western Canon The Books and School of the Ages

Harold Bloom

A study of twenty-six canonical writers details the qualities that make them literary essentials, and includes Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Beckett, Tolstoy, Freud, Molie+a6re, and others. By the author of The Book of J. 100,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

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It was referenced as a book that discussed the progressive left's potential to try and cancel Shakespeare back in 1986, with the author, Harold Bloom, daring them to do so.

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If you read Harold Bloom's introduction to the Western canon in 1986, he was daring the progressive left, the extremists to try to cancel Shakespeare.

— Episode: Morning Joe 6/5/23

Episode: Morning Joe 6/5/23

It was referenced as a book that discussed the progressive left's potential to try and cancel Shakespeare back in 1986, with the author, Harold Bloom, daring them to do so.

"

If you read Harold Bloom's introduction to the Western canon in 1986, he was daring the progressive left, the extremists to try to cancel Shakespeare.

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