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. 103.

  2. 104.
    Luis de Gongora: Selected Shorter Poems (Linguistic Series)
    by Luis De Gongora Y. Argote

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  3. 105.
    Gongora: Soledades (Spanish Texts Series) (Spanish Texts Series)
    by Luis De Gbongora Y. Argote

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  4. 106.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  5. 107.
    Cervantes: Exemplary Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  6. 108.
    La dorotea de lope de vega
    by Nadine Ly

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  7. 110.
    Eight Dramas of Calderon
    by Pedro Calderon Barca

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  8. 111.
    Sor Juana's Love Poems: In Spanish and English
    by Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz

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  9. 112.
    The Riverside Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  10. 113.
    Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 (The Penguin English Library)
    by Thomas Malory

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  11. 114.
    Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2 (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Malory

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  12. 115.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Robert Henryson

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  13. 116.
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    The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by John Skelton

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  14. 117.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More

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  15. 118.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Wyatt

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  16. 119.

  17. 121.

  18. 122.
    Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Philip Sidney

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  19. 123.
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    Poems and dramas of Fulke Greville first lord Brooke,
    by Fulke Greville

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  20. 124.
    The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics)
    by Edmund Spenser

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  21. 125.
    The Shorter Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Edmund Spenser

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  22. 126.

  23. 127.
    Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays
    by Christopher Marlowe

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  24. 128.
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    The complete poems and translations; (Penguin English poets)
    by Christopher Marlowe

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  25. 129.
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    Selected poems [of] Michael Drayton
    by Michael Drayton

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  26. 130.
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    Poems and A defence of ryme,
    by Samuel Daniel

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  27. 131.

  28. 132.
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  29. 133.
    The Riverside Shakespeare
    by William Shakespeare

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  30. 134.
    The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by John Donne

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  31. 135.
    Donne: Selected Prose (Penguin Classic)
    by John Donne

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  32. 136.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Ben Jonson

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  33. 138.
    The Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Francis Bacon

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  34. 139.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Robert Burton

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  35. 140.
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    The Major Works (Penguin Classics)
    by Sir Thomas Browne

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  36. 141.
    Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hobbes

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  37. 143.
    Poems of Thomas Carew
    by Thomas Carew

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  38. 144.
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    The Poems of Richard Lovelace
    by Richard Lovelace

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  39. 145.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Andrew Marvell

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  40. 146.

  41. 147.
    Traherne: Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Traherne

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  42. 148.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Vaughan

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  43. 149.
    The Complete Works (Penguin Classics)
    by John Wilmot

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  44. 150.
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    The poems, English, Latin and Greek, of Richard Crashaw
    by Richard Crashaw

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