One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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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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