Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon"

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Literary critic Harold Bloom’s controversial list of the books that shaped Western culture, from his The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.

I have tried to list inexpensive English-language editions whenever possible. Occasionally the edition or translator will not precisely match that specified by Bloom; this seems unavoidable.

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  1. 351.
    A Dream Play
    by August Strindberg

  2. 352.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Robert Burns

  3. 353.
    Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Edition)
    by William Blake

  4. 354.
    The Poems : Volume 1 (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

  5. 355.
    The Poems: Volume 2 (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

  6. 356.
    The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

  7. 357.
    Waverley (Penguin English Library)
    by Walter Scott

  8. 358.
    The Heart of Midlothian (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

  9. 360.
    The Tale of Old Mortality (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

  10. 361.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  11. 362.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  12. 363.
    Mansfield Park (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  13. 364.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  14. 365.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  15. 366.
    ?
    Coleridge: Selected Poetry and Prose (Penguin Poetry Library)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  16. 368.
    The Fight and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
    by William Hazlitt

  17. 369.
    Don Juan (Penguin Classics)
    by Lord George Gordon Byron

  18. 370.
    Byron: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Lord George Gordon Byron

  19. 371.
    ?

  20. 372.
    Imaginary Conversations...
    by Walter Savage Landor

  21. 373.
    Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin English Library)
    by Thomas De Quincey

  22. 374.
    ?
    Lamb, The Selected Prose of Charles (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Lamb

  23. 375.
    Castle Rackrent and Ennui (Penguin Classics)
    by Maria Edgeworth

  24. 377.
    Cranford / Cousin Phillis (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

  25. 378.
    Mary Barton (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

  26. 379.
    North and South (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

  27. 381.
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Robert Maturin

  28. 382.
    Shelley: Selected Poetry (Poetry Library, Penguin)
    by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  29. 383.
    Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
    by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  30. 384.

  31. 385.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by John Clare

  32. 386.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by John Keats

  33. 387.
    Death's Jest Book (Fyfield Books)
    by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  34. 388.
    ?
    The poetical works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes; (The Temple library)
    by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  35. 391.

  36. 392.
    The Poems: Volume 1 (Penguin English Poets)
    by Robert Browning

  37. 393.
    ?

  38. 394.
    The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  39. 395.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  40. 396.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  41. 397.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  42. 398.
    Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  43. 399.
    Hard Times (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  44. 400.

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Created by c. libre on Apr 10, 2006.
 

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