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. 51.
    The Georgics (Penguin Classics)
    by Virgil

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  2. 53.
    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics ed.)
    by Ovid

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  3. 54.
    The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

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  4. 55.
    Heroides (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

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  5. 56.

  6. 57.
    Martial in English (Penguin Classics)
    by Martial

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  7. 58.
    Four Tragedies and Octavia (Penguin Classics)
    by Seneca

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  8. 60.
    The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics)
    by Apuleius

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  9. 61.
    City of God (Penguin Classics)
    by Augustine of Hippo

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  10. 62.
    Confessions (Penguin Classics)
    by Bishop of Hippo Augustine Saint

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  11. 63.

  12. 64.

  13. 65.
    The Poetic Edda

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  14. 66.
    The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics)
    by Snorri Sturluson

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  15. 67.

  16. 68.
    Parzival (Penguin Classics)
    by Wolfram Von Eschenbach

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  17. 69.
    Yvain, Or, the Knight With the Lion
    by Chretien De Troyes

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  18. 70.
    Beowulf: A Prose Translation (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  19. 72.

  20. 74.
    The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
    by Dante Alighieri

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  21. 75.
    Purgatorio (Penguin Classics)
    by Alighieri Dante

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  22. 77.
    The New Life (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Dante Alighieri

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  23. 78.
    The Portable Petrarch (Penguin Classics)
    by Petrarch

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  24. 79.
    The Decameron: Second Edition (Penguin Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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  25. 80.
    Orlando Innamorato/Orlando in Love
    by Matteo Maria Boiardo

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  26. 81.
    Orlando Furioso: Part 1 (Penguin Classics)
    by Ludovico Ariosto

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  27. 82.
    Orlando Furioso, Part Two (Penguin Classics)
    by Ludovico Ariosto

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  28. 83.
    Sonnets and madrigals of Michelangelo Buonarroti
    by Michelangelo Buonarroti

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  29. 84.
    The Prince (Penguin Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  30. 85.
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    The Mandrake.
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  31. 86.
    The Da Vinci Notebooks
    by Leonardo Da Vinci

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  32. 87.
    The Book of the Courtier (Penguin Classics)
    by Baldesar Castiglione

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  33. 88.
    Gaspara Stampa: Selected Poems
    by Gaspara Stampa

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  34. 90.
    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Penguin Classics)
    by Benvenuto Cellini

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  35. 91.
    Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata)
    by Torquato Tasso

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  36. 92.
    The Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast
    by Giordano Bruno

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  37. 93.
    The Sonnets of Michaelangelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella
    by Michaelangelo Buonarroti

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  38. 94.
    The City of the Sun
    by Tommaso Campanella

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  39. 95.
    New Science (Penguin Classics)
    by Giambattista Vico

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  40. 96.
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    Tragedie. Filippo. Oreste. Saul. Mirra. Bruto Secondo
    by Vittorio Alfieri

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  41. 97.
    The Lusiads (Penguin Classics)
    by Luis Vaz de Camoes

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  42. 98.
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    The Muse Reborn: The Poetry of Antonio Ferreira
    by T. F. Earle

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  43. 99.
    Coplas De Jorge Manrique
    by Jorge Manrique

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