Woolf's Orlando: Feminism as the Love of Reading.

Proust: The True Persuasion of Sexual Jealousy. The Canonical Novel: Dickens's Bleak House, George Eliot's Middlemarch. Emily Dickinson: Blanks, Transports, the Dark. Walt Whitman as Center of the American Canon. Canonical Memory in Early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion. Goethe's Faust, Part Two: The Countercanonical Poem Montaigne and Moliere: The Canonical Elusiveness of the Truth. Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean Character. The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireĪ Philosophical Enquiry into.The Western canon : the books and school of the ages / Harold Bloom Book Bib ID Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Lycidas, Comus, and the Minor Poems Samson Agonistes AreopagiticaĪ Tale of a Tub Gulliver's Travels Shorter Prose Works Poems Religio Medici Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall The Garden of Cyrus The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Astrophel and Stella An Apology for Poetry The Canterbury Tales Troilus and Criseyde Life is a Dream The Mayor of Zalamea The Mighty Magician The Doctor of His Own Honor La Dorotea Fuente Ovejuna Lost in a Mirror The Knight of Olmedo Mention individual works by a canonical master, and in other instances IĪttempt to call attention to authors and books that I consider canonicalīut rather neglected. In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not Through Goethe's Faust, Part Two, an era that gives usĪ huge body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English,įrench, and German.

'It is a span of five hundred years from Dante's Divine Comedy The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night.The Golden Ass The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante Tragedies, particularly Medea and Hercules Furens The Girl from Andros The Eunuch The Mother-in-Law Pseudolus The Braggart Soldier The Rope Amphitryon The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles).The Birds The Clouds The Frogs Lysistrata The Knights The Wasps The Assemblywomen Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Electra Ajax Women of Trachis PhiloctetesĬyclops Heracles Alcestis Hecuba Bacchae Orestes Andromache Medea Ion Hippolytus Helen Iphigenia at Aulis Oresteia Seven Against Thebes Prometheus Bound Persians Suppliant Women

Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the Wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. 'I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is I would think that, of all the books thatĪre in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves 'Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious,

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