# The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon

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- Book: [The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon](https://www.bookquiver.com/harold-bloom/the-american-canon-literary-genius-from-emerson-to-pynchon) ([The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/harold-bloom/the-american-canon-literary-genius-from-emerson-to-pynchon.md))
- Authors: [Harold Bloom](https://www.bookquiver.com/harold-bloom), [David Mikics](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-mikics)
- Publisher: library_of_america
- ISBN: 978-15-9853-640-9
- Pages: 436
- Published: 2019-10-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better understood...