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Harold Bloom

“One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.”

Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom
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