Stephen Greenblatt
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Review of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
An epic account of a manuscript that might’ve never seen the light of day. Though Greenblatt greatly exaggerates the general influence of said document, the realm of lost classics, buried classics and unrecovered masterpieces has always fascinated me.He takes a Bloomian view of the canon, completely excluding all Eastern cultures…
