The work has since come to assume a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess has lauded "Finnegans Wake" as "a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page". The prominent literary academic Harold Bloom has called it Joyce's masterpiece, and, in "" (1994), wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon, ["Finnegans Wake"] would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante". The now commonplace term "quark" – a subatomic particle – originates from "Finnegans Wake".