Pulitzer Prize winners and never-before-published writers are equals during our manuscript evaluation process, whose goal is to identify and print works that promise to be, in the famous words of Ezra Pound, 'news that stays news.' Through its commitment to excellence, The Georgia Review has won numerous awards and earned an international reputation, and selections from its pages are regularly reprinted in the nation’s most prestigious prize anthologies. Framed by An Elegy for the Canon and An Elegiac Conclusion - both despairing reflections on the present state of literary studies - this magnum opus. In this book, the author argues against ideology in literary criticism laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards and tackles topics including multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism.

Never stuffy and never shallow, The Georgia Review seeks a broad audience of intellectually open and curious readers-and strives to give those readers rich content that invites and sustains repeated attention and consideration. Each quarterly issue offers a diverse, thoughtfully orchestrated gathering of short stories, general-interest essays, poems, reviews, and visual art. The New York Times Book Review Literary critic Harold Blooms The Western Canon. Bloom gained his PhD from Yale University in 1955, and he has taught there ever since he is currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English. It inspires hope that what humanity has long cherished, posterity will also. Brought up in a Yiddish-speaking home, he taught himself English and began to read poetry at an early age. Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review is one of America’s most highly regarded journals of arts and letters. Harold Bloom was born in the Bronx, New York, on 11 July 1930.

The Western Canon by Harold Bloom