>Poe's stories, despite their permanent, world-wide popularity,

he's also said that John Milton intended Satan to be the protagonist of Paradise Lost
Don't worry, I fell for the meme too

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>>9042841
>no counter argument

>>9042859
This is true. He's the Byronic hero.

>muh scary spooky horror stories

Bloom is never wrong.

Atrociously wrong might be a bit much, but Baudelaire's Poe is superior and Poe is childrens' literature.

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The school of resentments at it again I see
Out! You are boring!

>>9042841
>he hasn't even read the telltale heart

step it up senpai it takes a good writer to build atmosphere like that

>>9042932
>Milton based Satan off of a person who was born 100 years after he died.

What did he mean by this?

>>9042841
If I wanted to listen to a fat, boring criticising everyone else without producing a scrap of interesting creative work I'd go watch a youtube review.

And I did, I have it open in the next tab, and what that 30 something year old neckbeard had to say still sound less like masturbation than these endless Harold Bloom quotes.

I still don't get what relevance the Book of the Dead has to the canon. I still don't get why the canon has twice as many American and English books than basically the entirety of the canon combined.

>>9043132
Bloom would later disown the list, saying that it was written at his editor's insistence and distracted from the book's intention.[3]

>>9043142
It's a great list tho, even if too anglo.

>>9042841
Borges disagrees completely.

>>9043189
Exactly.

>>9042859
retard

>>9042841
What's his justification for the inclusion of Poe's collected works into his canon?

>>9042841
>But there is still the burden of Tolkien’s style: stiff, false archaic,
>overwrought, and finally a real hindrance in Volume III, The Return of the
>King, which I have had trouble rereading. At seventy-seven, I may just be too
>old, but here is The Return of the King, opened pretty much at random:

>At the doors of the Houses many were already gathered to see
>Aragorn, and they followed after him; and when at last he had
>supped, men came and prayed that he would heal their kinsmen
>or their friends whose lives were in peril through hurt or wound,
>or who lay under the Black Shadow. And Aragorn arose and went
>out, and he sent for the sons of Elrond, and together they labored
>far into the night. And word went through the city: ‘The King is
>come again indeed.’ And they named him Elfstone, because of the
>green stone that he wore, and so the name which it was foretold
>at his birth that he should bear was chosen for him by his own
>people.

>I am not able to understand how a skilled and mature reader can absorb
>about fifteen hundred pages of this quaint stuff. Why “hurt or wound”; are they
>not the same? What justifies the heavy King James Bible influence upon this
>style? Sometimes, reading Tolkien, I am reminded of the Book of Mormon.
>Tolkien met a need, particularly in the early days of the counterculture in
>the later 1960s. Whether he is an author for the duration of the twenty-first
>century seems to me open to some doubt.

What the fuck is his fucking problem?

>>9043949
Why "fuck is his fucking," are they not the same?