In word: Classics. The focus of this blog will be simple, my reviews of my time spent reading books that Harold Bloom assembled as an appendix to his magnificent book, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.
Some of them I have read (but will re-read in an effort to more thoroughly log my experience), some of them I have shied away from, but they all must be analyzed and will, by me, from an aesthetic framework only. I will read these books for two reasons: 1. To better understand myself, and 2. To prepare for my eventual matriculation into graduate school.
My goal will be to read a novel from each of Bloom’s ages. I will keep a page devoted to current reading with identification from which age as well as a page devoted to books completed. In the sidebar I will post a link to someones excellent work at making a digital list of Bloom’s canon.
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June 24, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Best of luck on your endeavor. You could do worse than using his list as a guide, even if Bloom tries to disown or minimize his compilation. If Bloom is your muse, you’re probably aware of some of his comments after TWC as far as some authors he shortchanged (which I’ve found in interviews posted online and in his book Genius). These additional comments by him and others have pointed me toward works I probably would have never discovered otherwise.
Again, good luck, and I look forward to your posts on what you read!