The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West; works that have achieved...

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the...

author or an ascribed author Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture Western canon, the body of high culture literature,...

Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority...

Philosophical Society in 1995. Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided...

containing prominent western authors, poets, and pieces of literature. The best of Western literature is considered to be the Western canon. The list of works...

biblical canon in traditional Christendom. Western scholars have classified the books of the canon into two categories — the narrower canon, which consists...

the Western World, Modern Library, or Penguin Classics) or presented as a list, such as Harold Bloom's list of books that constitute the Western canon. Although...

In canon law, a canon designates some law promulgated by a synod, an ecumenical council, or an individual bishop. The word "canon" comes from the Greek...

direct and figurative symbol in literary and artistic works in the Western canon. Philomela was the younger of two daughters of Pandion I, King of Athens...