411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope
The History of Literature
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Bloom Is the Centre of the American Canon
Walt whitman says, bloom is the centre of the american canon. Our major novelists are very close to george eliot, flaubert tolstoy, prust and joyce,. frost stevens, eliot, hart crane, elizabeth bishop rival non united states poets such as neruda or lorca valery. And he says, we have single books that matter in world terms, the scarlet letter, moby dick, huckleberry, finn and as i lay dying. The book that matters most in world terms is the 18 55 original leaves of grass.
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