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The Western Canonby Harold Bloom

This page:A. The Theocratic Age: 2000 BCE-1321 CE

B. The Aristocratic Age: 1321-1832

C. The Democratic Age: 1832-1900

D. The Chaotic Age: 20th Century

A. The Theocratic Age

ince the literary canon is at issue here, I include onlythose religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific

writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. I wouldthink that, of all the books that are in this first list, once thereader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, theAthenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is theKoran....

have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures andfundamental literary texts, because of their influence on

the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chineseliterature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literarytradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translationsavailable to us."(Bloom, p. 531)

The Ancient Near East

GilgameshEgyptian Book of the DeadHoly Bible (King James Version)The ApocryphaSayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)

Ancient India (Sanskrit)

MahabharataBhagavad-GitaRamayana

The Ancient Greeks

HomerIliadOdyssey

HesiodWorks and DaysTheogony

Archilochos, Sappho, AlkmanPindar

OdesAeschylus

OresteiaSeven Against ThebesPrometheus Bound

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PersiansSuppliant Women

SophoclesOedipus the KingOedipus at ColonusAntigoneElectraAjaxWomen of TrachisPhiloctetes

EuripidesCyclopsHeraclesAlcestisHecubaBacchaeOrestesAndromacheMedeaIonHippolytusHelenIphigenia at Aulis

AristophanesThe BirdsThe CloudsThe FrogsLysistrataThe KnightsThe WaspsThe Assemblywomen

HerodotusThe Histories

ThucydidesThe Peloponnesian Wars

The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)Plato

DialoguesAristotle

PoeticsEthics

Hellenistic Greeks

MenanderThe Girl from Samos

"Longinus"On the Sublime

CallimachusHymns

and EpigramsTheocritus

IdyllsPlutarch

LivesMoralia

"Aesop"Fables

LucianSatires

The Romans



PlautusPseudolusThe Braggart SoldierThe RopeAmphitryon

TerenceThe Girl from AndrosThe EunuchThe Mother-in-Law

LucretiusThe Way Things Are

CiceroOn the Gods

HoraceOdesEpistlesSatires

PersiusSatires

CatullusAttis

and Other PoemsVirgil

AeneidEcloguesGeorgics

LucanPharsalia

OvidMetamorphosesThe Art of LoveHeroides

JuvenalSatires

MartialEpigrams

SenecaTragedies

, particularly Medea and Hercules FurensPetronius

SatyriconApuleius

The Golden Ass

The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante

Saint AugustineCity of GodConfessions

The Koran (Al-Qur'an)The Book of the Thousand Nights and One NightThe Poetic EddaSnorri Sturluson

The Prose EddaThe Nibelungen LiedWolfram von Eschenbach

ParzivalChrétien de Troyes

Yvain: The Knight of the LionBeowulfThe Poem of the CidChristine de Pisan



"I

The Book of the City of LadiesDiego de San Pedro

Prison of Love

B. The Aristocratic Age

t is a span of five hundred years from Dante's Divine Comedy through Goethe's Faust, Part Two [1321-1832], an era that gives us a huge body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English,

French, and German. In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not mention individual works by acanonical master, and in other instances I attempt to call attention to authors and books that I considercanonical but rather neglected. From this list onward, many good writers who are not quite central areomitted...." (Bloom, p. 534)

Italy

DanteThe Divine ComedyThe New Life

PetrarchLyric PoemsSelections

Giovanni BoccaccioThe Decameron

Matteo Maria BoiardoOrlando Innamorato

Ludovico AriostoOrlando Furioso

Michelangelo BuonarrotiSonnets and Madrigals

Niccolò MachiavelliThe PrinceThe Mandrake, a Comedy

Leonardo da VinciNotebooks

Baldassare CastiglioneThe Book of the Courtier

Gaspara StampaSonnets

and MadrigalsGiorgio Vasari

Lives of the PaintersBenvenuto Cellini

AutobiographyTorquato Tasso

Jerusalem DeliveredGiordano Bruno

The Expulsion of the Triumphant BeastTommaso Campanella

PoemsThe City of the Sun

Giambattista VicoPrinciples of a New Science

Carlo GoldoniThe Servant of Two Masters

Vittorio AlfieriSaul

Portugal

Luis de CamoënsThe Lusiads



Antònio FerreiraPoetry

Spain

Jorge ManriqueCoplas

Fernando de RojasLa Celestina

Lazarillo de TormesFrancisco de Quevedo

VisionsSatirical Letter of Censure

Fray Luis de LeónPoems

St. John of the CrossPoems

Luis de GóngoraSonnetsSoledades

Miguel de CervantesDon QuixoteExemplary Stories

Lope de VegaLa DoroteaFuente OvejunaLost in a MirrorThe Knight of Olmedo

Tirso de MolinaThe Trickster of Seville

Pedro Calderón de la BarcaLife is a DreamThe Mayor of ZalameaThe Mighty MagicianThe Doctor of His Own Honor

Sor Juana Inés de la CruzPoems

England and Scotland

Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesTroilus and Criseyde

Sir Thomas MaloryLe Morte D'Arthur

William DunbarPoems

John SkeltonPoems

Sir Thomas MoreUtopia

Sir Thomas WyattPoems

Henry Howard, Earl of SurreyPoems

Sir Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaAstrophel and StellaAn Apology for Poetry

Fulke Greville, Lord BrookePoems

Edmund Spenser



The Faerie QueeneThe Minor Poems

Sir Walter RaleghPoems

Christopher MarlowePoems

and PlaysMichael Drayton

PoemsSamuel Daniel

PoemsA Defence of Ryme

Thomas NasheThe Unfortunate Traveller

Thomas KydThe Spanish Tragedy

William ShakespearePlays

and PoemsThomas Campion

SongsJohn Donne

PoemsSermons

Ben JonsonPoems

, Plays, and MasquesFrancis Bacon

EssaysRobert Burton

The Anatomy of MelancholySir Thomas Browne

Religio MediciHydriotaphia, or Urne-BuriallThe Garden of Cyrus

Thomas HobbesLeviathan

Robert HerrickPoems

Thomas CarewPoems

Richard LovelacePoems

Andrew MarvellPoems

George HerbertThe Temple

Thomas TraherneCenturies

, Poems, and ThanksgivingsHenry Vaughan

PoetryJohn Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

PoemsRichard Crashaw

PoemsFrancis Beaumont and John Fletcher

PlaysGeorge Chapman

Comedies, Tragedies, PoemsJohn Ford

'Tis Pity She's a Whore



John MarstonThe Malcontent

John WebsterThe White DevilThe Duchess of Malfi

Thomas Middleton and William RowleyThe Changeling

Cyril TourneurThe Revenger's Tragedy

Philip MassingerA New Way to Pay Old Debts

John BunyanThe Pilgrim's Progress

Izaak WaltonThe Compleat Angler

John MiltonParadise LostParadise RegainedLycidas

, Comus, and the Minor PoemsSamson AgonistesAreopagitica

John AubreyBrief Lives

Jeremy TaylorHoly Dying

Samuel ButlerHudibras

John DrydenPoetry and PlaysCritical Essays

Thomas OtwayVenice Preserv'd

William CongreveThe Way of the WorldLove for Love

Jonathan SwiftA Tale of a TubGulliver's TravelsShorter Prose WorksPoems

Sir George EtheregeThe Man of Mode

Alexander PopePoems

John GayThe Beggar's Opera

James BoswellLife of JohnsonJournals

Samuel JohnsonWorks

Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Enquiry into...the Sublime and BeautifulReflections on the Revolution in France

Maurice MorgannAn Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff

William CollinsPoems

George Farquhar



The Beaux' StrategemThe Recruiting Officer

William WycherleyThe Country WifeThe Plain Dealer

Christopher SmartJubilate AgnoA Song to David

Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldShe Stoops to ConquerThe TravellerThe Deserted Village

Richard Brinsley SheridanThe School of ScandalThe Rivals

William CowperPoetical Works

George CrabbePoetical Works

Daniel DefoeMoll FlandersRobinson CrusoeA Journal of the Plague Year

Samuel RichardsonClarissaPamelaSir Charles Grandison

Henry FieldingJoseph AndrewsThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Tobias SmollettThe Expedition of Humphry ClinkerThe Adventures of Roderick Random

Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Fanny BurneyEvelina

Joseph Addison and Richard SteeleThe Spectator

France

Jean FroissartChronicles

The Song of RolandFrançois Villon

PoemsMichel de Montaigne

EssaysFrançois Rabelais

Gargantua and PantagruelMarguerite de Navarre

The HeptameronJoachim Du Bellay

The RegretsMaurice Scève

DéliePierre Ronsard

Odes, Elegies, SonnetsPhilippe de Commynes



MemoirsAgrippa d'Aubigné

Les TragiquesRobert Garnier

Mark AntonyThe Jewesses

Pierre CorneilleThe CidPolyeucteNicomèdeHoraceCinnaRodogune

François de La RochefoucauldMaxims

Jean de La FontaineFables

MolièreThe MisanthropeTartuffeThe School for WivesThe Learned LadiesDon JuanSchool for HusbandsRidiculous PrecieusesThe Would-Be GentlemanThe MiserThe Imaginary Invalid

Blaise PascalPensées

Jacques-Bénigne BosuetFunerary Orations

Nicolas Boileau-DespréauxThe Art of PoetryLutrin

Jean RacinePhaedraAndromacheBritannicusAthaliah

Pierre Carlet de MarivauxSeven Comedies

Jean-Jacques RousseauThe ConfessionsÉmileLa Nouvelle Héloïse

VoltaireZadigCandideLetters on EnglandThe Lisbon Earthquake

Abbé PrévostManon Lescaut

Madame de La FayetteThe Princess of Cleves

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de ChamfortProducts of the Perfected Civilization

Denis DiderotRameau's Nephew

Choderlos de LaclosDangerous Liaisons



"I

Germany

ErasmusIn Praise of Folly

Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust, Parts One and TwoDichtung und WahrheitEgmontElective AffinitiesThe Sorrows of Young WertherPoemsWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipWilhelm Meister's Years of WanderingItalian JourneyVerse PlaysHermann and DorotheaRoman ElegiesVenetian EpigramsWest-Eastern Divan

Friedrich SchillerThe RobbersMary StuartWallensteinDon CarlosOn the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature

Gotthold LessingLaocoönNathan the Wise

Freidrich HölderlinHymns and FragmentsSelected Poems

Heinrich von KleistFive PlaysStories

C. The Democratic Age

have located Vico's Democratic Age in the post-Goethean nineteenth century, when the literature of Italyand Spain ebbs, yielding eminence to England with its renaissance of the Renaissance in Romanticism,

and to a lesser degree to France and Germany. This is also the era where the strength of both Russian andAmerican literature begins."(Bloom, p. 540)

Italy

Ugo FoscoloOn SepulchresLast Letters of Jacopo OrtisOdes

and The GracesAlessandro Manzoni

The BetrothedOn the Historical Novel

Giacomo LeopardiEssays and DialoguesPoemsThe Moral Essays

Giuseppe Gioacchino BelliRoman Sonnets

Giosué CarducciHymn to Satan



Barbarian OdesRhymes and Rhythms

Giovanni VergaLittle Novels of SicilyMastro-Don GesualdoThe House by the Medlar TreeThe She-Wolf and Other Stories

Spain and Portugal

Gustavo Adolpho BécquerPoems

Benito Pérez GaldósFortunata and Jacinta

Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)La Regenta

José Maria de Eça de QueirósThe Maias

France

Benjamin ConstantAdolpheThe Red Notebook

François-Auguste-René de ChateaubriandAttalaRenéThe Genius of Christianity

Alphonse de LamartineMeditations

Alfred de VignyChattertonPoems

Victor HugoThe Distance, the Shadows: Selected PoemsLes MisérablesNotre-Dame of ParisWilliam ShakespeareThe Toilers of the SeaThe End of SatanGod

Alfred de MussetPoemsLorenzaccio

Gérard de NervalThe ChimerasSylvieAurelia

Théophile GautierMademoiselle de MaupinEnamels and Cameos

Honoré de BalzacThe Girl with the Golden EyesLouis LambertThe Wild Ass's Sk inOld GoriotCousin BetteA Harlot High and LowEugénie GrandetUrsule Mirouet

StendhalOn Love



The Red and the BlackThe Charterhouse of Parma

Gustave FlaubertMadame BovarySentimental EducationSalammbôA Simple Soul

George SandThe Haunted Pool

Charles BaudelaireFlowers of EvilParis Spleen

Stéphane MallarméSelected Poetry and Prose

Paul VerlaineSelected Poems

Arthur RimbaudComplete Works

Tristan CorbièreLes Armours Jaunes

Jules LaforgueSelected Writings

Guy de MaupassantSelected Short Stories

Émile ZolaGerminalL'AssommoirNana

Scandinavia

Henrik IbsenBrandPeer GyntEmperor and GalileanHedda GablerThe Master BuilderThe Lady from the SeaWhen We Dead Awaken

August StrindbergTo DamascusMiss JulieThe FatherThe Dance of DeathThe Ghost SonataA Dream Play

Great Britain

Robert BurnsPoems

William BlakeComplete Poetry and Prose

William WordsworthPoemsThe Prelude

Sir Walter ScottWaverleyThe Heart of MidlothianRedgauntletOld Mortality

Jane Austen



Pride and PrejudiceEmmaMansfield ParkPersuasion

Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoems and Prose

Dorothy WordsworthThe Grasmere Journal

William HazlittEssays and Criticism

Lord ByronDon JuanPoems

William Savage LandorPoemsImaginary Conversations

Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterSelected Prose

Charles LambEssays

Maria EdgeworthCastle Rackrent

John GaltThe Entail

Elizabeth GaskellCranfordMary BartonNorth and South

James HoggThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Charles MaturinMelmoth the Wanderer

Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoemsA Defence of Poetry

Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFrankenstein

John ClarePoems

John KeatsPoems and Letters

Thomas Lovell BeddoesDeath's Jest-BookPoems

George DarleyNepenthePoems

Thomas HoodPoems

Thomas WadePoems

Robert BrowningPoemsThe Ring and the Book

Charles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubDavid CopperfieldThe Adventures of Oliver TwistA Tale of Two CitiesBleak HouseHard Times



Nicholas Nick lebyDombey and SonGreat ExpectationsMartin ChuzzlewitChristmas StoriesLittle DorritOur Mutual FriendThe Mystery of Edwin Drood

Alfred, Lord TennysonPoemsDante Gabriel Rossetti

Poems and TranslationsMatthew Arnold

PoemsEssaysArthur Hugh Clough

PoemsChristina Rossetti

PoemsThomas Love Peacock

Nightmare AbbeyGryll Grange

Gerald Manley HopkinsPoems and ProseThomas Carlyle

Selected ProseSartor Resartus

John RuskinModern PaintersThe Stones of VeniceUnto This LastThe Queen of the Air

Walter PaterStudies in the History of the RenaissanceAppreciationsImaginary PortraitsMarius the Epicurean

Edward FitzGeraldThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

John Stuart MillOn LibertyAutobiography

John Henry NewmanApologia pro Vita SuaA Grammar of AssentThe Idea of a University

Anthony TrollopeThe Barsetshire NovelsThe Palliser NovelsOrley FarmThe Way We Live Now

Lewis CarrollComplete Works

Edward LearComplete Nonsense

George GissingNew Grub Street

Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and LettersCharlotte Brontë

Jane EyreVillette



Emily BrontëPoemsWuthering Heights

William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairThe History of Henry Esmond

George MeredithPoemsThe Egoist

Francis ThompsonPoemsLionel Johnson

PoemsRobert Bridges

PoemsGilbert Keith Chesterton

Collected PoemsThe Man Who Was Thursday

Samuel ButlerErewhonThe Way of All Flesh

W. S. GilbertComplete Plays of Gilbert andSullivanBab Ballads

Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstoneThe Woman in WhiteNo Name

Coventry PatmoreOdes

James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis)The City of the Dreadful Night

Oscar WildePlaysThe Picture of Dorian GrayThe Artist as CriticLettersJohn Davidson

Ballads and SongsErnest Dowson

Complete PoemsGeorge Eliot

Adam BedeSilas MarnerThe Mill on the FlossMiddlemarchDaniel Deronda

Robert Louis StevensonEssaysKidnappedDr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeTreasure IslandThe New Arabian NightsThe Master of BallantraeWeir of Hermiston

William MorrisEarly RomancesPoemsThe Earthly ParadiseThe Well at the World'sEnd



News from NowhereBram Stoker

DraculaGeorge Macdonald

LilithAt the Back of the NorthWind

Germany

Novalis (Friedrich vonHardenburg)

Hymns to the NightAphorisms

Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmFairy Tales

Eduard MörikeSelected PoemsMozart on His Way toPrague

Theodor StormImmenseePoemsGottfried Keller

Green HenryTales

E. T. A. HoffmannThe Devil's ElixirTales

Jeremias GotthelfThe Black Spider

Adalbert StifterIndian SummerTales

Friedrich SchlegelCriticism

and AphorismsGeorg Büchner

Danton's DeathWoyzeck

Heinrich HeineComplete Poems

Richard WagnerThe Ring of the Nibelung

Friedrich NietzscheThe Birth of TragedyBeyond Good and EvilOn the Genealogy ofMoralsThe Will to Power

Theodor FontaneEffi Briest

Stefan GeorgeSelected Poems

Russia

Aleksandr PushkinComplete Prose TalesComplete PoetryEugene OneginNarrative Poems



Boris GodunovNikolay Gogol

The Complete TalesDead SoulsThe GovernmentInspector

Mikhail LermontovNarrative PoemsA Hero of Our Time

Segey AksakovA Family Chronicle

Aleksandr HerzenMy Past and ThoughtsFrom the Other Shore

Ivan GoncharovThe Frigate PalladaOblomov

Ivan TurgenevA Sportsman'sNotebookA Month in the CountryFathers and SonsOn the EveFirst Love

Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from theUndergroundCrime and PunishmentThe IdiotThe Possessed

(The Devils)

The Brothers KaramazovShort Novels

Leo TolstoyThe CossacksWar and PeaceAnna KareninaA ConfessionThe Power of DarknessShort Novels

Nikolay LeskovTales

Aleksandr OstrovskyThe Storm

Nikolay ChernyshevskyWhat is to Be Done?

Aleksandr BlokThe Twelve and Other Poems

Anton ChekhovThe TalesThe Major Plays

The United States

Washington IrvingThe Sketch Book

William Cullen BryantCollected Poems

James Fenimore CooperThe Deerslayers

John Greenleaf Whittier



Collected PoemsRalph Waldo Emerson

NatureEssays

, first and second seriesRepresentative MenThe Conduct of LifeJournalsPoems

Emily DickinsonComplete Poems

Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass

, first editionLeaves of Grass

, third editionThe Complete PoemsSpecimen Days

Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterTales and SketchesThe Marble FaunNotebooks

Herman MelvilleMoby-DickThe Piazza TalesBilly BuddCollected PoemsClarel

Edgar Allan PoePoetry and TalesEssays and ReviewsThe Narrative of Arthur GordonPymEureka

Jones VeryEssays and Poems

Frederick Goddard TuckermanThe Cricket and Other Poems

Henry David ThoreauWaldenPoemsEssays

Richard Henry Dana, Jr.Two Years Before the Mast

Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life ofFrederick Douglass, anAmerican Slave

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSelected Poems

Sidney LanierPoems

Francis ParkmanFrance and England in NorthAmericaThe California and Oregon Trail

Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry AdamsMont Saint-Michel and Chartres

Ambrose BierceCollected Writings



"I

Louisa May AlcottLittle Women

Charles W. ChesnuttThe Short Fiction

Kate ChopinThe Awakening

William Dean HowellsThe Rise of Silas LaphamA Modern Instance

Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of CourageStories

and PoemsHenry James

The Portrait of a LadyThe BostoniansThe Princess CasamassimaThe Awkward AgeShort Novels and TalesThe AmbassadorsThe Wings of the DoveThe Golden Bowl

Harold FredericThe Damnation of Theron Ware

Mark TwainComplete Short StoriesThe Adventures of Huck leberry FinnThe Devil's RacetrackNumber Forty-Four: The MysteriousStrangerPudd'nhead WilsonA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'sCourt

William JamesThe Varieties of Religious ExperiencePragmatism

Frank NorrisThe Octopus

Sarah Orne JewettThe Country of the Pointed Firs andOther Stories

Trumbull StickneyPoems

D. The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy

am not as confident about this list as the first three. Cultural prophecy is always a mug's game. Not all ofthe works here can prove to be canonical; literary overpopulation is a hazard to many among them. But I

have neither excluded nor included on the basis of cultural politics of any kind."(Bloom, p. 548)

Italy

Luigi PirandelloNaked Masks: Five Plays

Gabriele D'AnnunzioMaia: In Praise of Life

Dino CampanaOrphic Songs

Umberto SabaStories and Recollections



PoemsGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The LeopardGiuseppe Ungaretti

Selected PoemsThe Buried Harbour: Selected Poems

Eugenio MontaleThe Storm and Other Things: PoemsThe Occasions: PoemsCuttlefish Bones: PoemsOtherwise: Last and First PoemsThe Second Life of Art: Selected Essays

Salvatore QuasimodoSelected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry

Tommaso LandolfiGogol's Wife and Other Stories

Leonardo SciasciaDay of the OwlEqual DangerThe Wine-Dark Sea: Thirteen Stories

Pier Paolo PasoliniPoems

Cesare PaveseHard Labor: PoemsDialogues with Leucò

Primo LeviIf Not Now, When?Collected PoemsThe Periodic Table

Italo SvevoThe Confession of ZenoAs a Man Grows Older

Giorgio BassaniThe Heron

Natalia GinzburgFamily

Elio VittoriniWomen of Messina

Alberto Moravia1934

Andrea ZanzottoSelected Poetry

Italo CalvinoInvisible CitiesThe Baron in the TreesIf on a Winter's Night a Travelert zero

Antonio PortaKisses from Another Dream: Poems

Spain

Miguel de UnamunoThree Exemplary NovelsOur Lord Don Quixote

Antonio MachadoSelected Poems

Juan Ramón JiménezInvisible Reality: Poems

Pedro SalinasMy Voice Because of You: Poems

Jorge Guillén



Guillén on Guillén: The Poetry and the PoetVicente Aleixandre

A Longing for the Light: Selected PoemsFederico Garcia Lorca

Selected PoemsThree Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernardo Alba

Rafael AlbertiThe Owl's Insomnia: Poems

Luis CernudaSelected Poems

Miguel HernándezSelected Poems

Blas de OteroSelected Poems

Camilo José CelaThe Hive

Juan GoytisoloSpace in Motion

Catalonia

Carles RibáSelected Poems

J. V. FoixSelected Poems

Joan PeruchoNatural History

Merce RodoredaThe Time of the Doves

Pere GimferrerSelected Poems

Salvador EspríuLa Pell de Brau: Poems

Portugal

Fernando PessoaThe Keeper of SheepPoemsSelected PoemsAlways Astonished: Selected PoemsThe Book of Disquiet

Jorge de SenaSelected Poems

José SaramagoBaltasar and Blimunda

José Cardoso PiresBallad of Dogs' Beach

Sophia de Mello BreynerSelected Poems

Eugénio de AndradeSelected Poems

France

Anatole FrancePenguin IslandThaïs

Alain-FournierLe Grand Meaulnes

Marcel ProustRemembrance of Things Past



(In Search of Lost Time)Andre Gide

The ImmoralistCorydonLafcadio's Adventure (The Caves of the Vatican)The Journals

ColetteCollected StoriesRetreat from Love

Georges BatailleBlue of Noon

Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of Night

René DaumalMount Analogue

Jean GenetOur Lady of the FlowersThe Thief's JournalThe Balcony

Jean GiraudouxFour Plays

Alfred JarrySelected Works

Jean CocteauThe Infernal Machine and Other Works

Guillaume ApollinaireSelected Writings

André BretonPoemsManifestoes of Surrealism

Paul ValéryThe Art of PoetrySelected Writings

René CharPoems

Paul ÉluardSelected Poems

Louis AragonSelected Poems

Jean GionoThe Horseman on the Roof

Michel LeirisManhood

Raymond RadiguetCount d'Orgel's Ball

Jean-Paul SartreNo ExitNauseaSaint GenetThe WordsThe Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert

Simone de BeauvoirThe Second Sex

Albert CamusThe StrangerThe PlagueThe FallThe Rebel

Henri MichauxSelected Writings

Edmond JabèsThe Book of Questions



Selected PoemsSaint-John Perse

AnabasisBirdsExile and Other Poems

Pierre ReverdySelected Poems

Tristan TzaraSeven Dada Manifestoes

Max JacobSelected Poems

Pierre-Jean JouveSelected Poems

Francis PongeThings: Selected Writings

Jacques PrévertParoles

Philippe JacottetSelected Poems

Charles PéguyThe Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc

Bejamin PéretSelected Poems

Andé MalrauxThe ConquerorsThe Royal WayMan's FateMan's HopeThe Voices of Silence

François MauriacThereseThe Desert of LoveThe Woman of the Pharisees

Jean AnouilhBecketAntigoneEurydiceThe Rehearsal

Eugène IonescoThe Bald SopranoThe ChairsThe LessonAmédéeVictims of DutyRhinoceros

Maurice BlanchotThomas the Obscure

Pierre KlossowskiThe Laws of HospitalityThe Baphomet

Raymond RousselLocus Solus

Antonin ArtaudSelected Writings

Claude Lévi-StraussTristes Tropiques

Alain Robbe-GrilletThe VoyeurJealousyIn the LabyrinthThe ErasersProject for a Revolution in New York



For a New NovelNathalie Sarraute

The Use of SpeechThe Planetarium

Claude SimonThe GrassThe WindThe Flanders Road

Marguerite DurasThe LoverFour Novels

Robert PingetFableThe Libera Me DomineThat Voice

Michel TournierThe OgreFriday

Marguerite YourcenarCoup de GraceMemoirs of Hadrian

Jean FollainTransparence of the World: Poems

Yves BonnefoyWords in Stone

Great Britain and Ireland

William Butler YeatsThe Collected PoemsCollected PlaysA VisionMythologies

George Bernard ShawMajor Critical EssaysHeartbreak HousePygmalionSaint JoanMajor BarbaraBack to Methuselah

John Millington SyngeCollected Plays

Sean O'CaseyJuno and the PaycockThe Plough and the StarsThe Shadow of a Gunman

George Douglas BrownHouse with the Green Shutters

Thomas HardyThe Well-BelovedThe WoodlandersThe Return of the NativeThe Mayor of CasterbridgeFar From the Madding CrowdTess of the D'UrbervillesJude the ObscureCollected Poems

Rudyard KiplingKimCollected StoriesPuck of Pook 's HillComplete Verse



A. E. HousmanCollected Poems

Max BeerbohmZuleika DobsonSeven Men and Two Others

Joseph ConradLord JimThe Secret AgentNostromoUnder Western EyesVictory

Ronald FirbankFive Novels

Ford Madox FordParade's EndThe Good Soldier

W. Somerset MaughamCollected Short StoriesThe Moon and Sixpence

John Cowper PowysWolf SolentA Glastonbury Romance

Saki (H. H. Munro)The Short Stories

H. G. WellsThe Science Fiction Novels

David LindsayA Voyage to Arcturus

Arnold BennettThe Old Wives' Tale

Walter De la MareCollected PoemsMemoirs of a Midget

Wilfred OwenCollected Poems

Isaac RosenbergCollected Poems

Edward ThomasCollected Poems

Robert GravesCollected PoemsKing Jesus

Edwin MuirCollected Poems

David JonesIn ParenthesisThe Anathemata

John GalsworthyThe Forsyte Saga

E. M. ForsterHowards EndA Passage to India

Frank O'ConnorCollected Stories

D. H. LawrenceComplete PoemsStudies in Classic American LiteratureComplete Short StoriesSons and LoversThe RainbowWomen in Love

Virginia Woolf



Mrs. DallowayTo the LighthouseOrlando: A BiographyThe WavesBetween the Acts

James JoyceDublinersPortrait of the Artist as a Young ManUlyssesFinnegans Wake

Samuel BeckettMurphyWattThree Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The UnnameableWaiting for GodotEndgameKrapp's Last GameHow It Is

Elizabeth BowenCollected Stories

J. G. FarrellThe Siege of Krishnapur

Henry GreenNothingLovingParty Going

Evelyn WaughA Handful of DustScoopVile BodiesPut Out More Flags

Anthony BurgessNothing Like the Sun

G. B. EdwardsThe Book of Ebenezer Le Page

Iris MurdochThe Good ApprenticeBruno's Dream

Graham GreeneBrighton RockThe Heart of the MatterThe Power and the Glory

Christopher IsherwoodThe Berlin Stories

Norman DouglasSouth Wind

Aldous HuxleyCollected EssaysAntic HayPoint Counter PointBrave New World

Lawrence DurrellAlexandria Quartet

William GoldingPincher Martin

Doris LessingThe Golden Notebook

Mervyn PeakeThe Gormenghast Trilogy

Jeanette WintersonThe Passion

W. H. Auden



Collected PoemsThe Dyer's Hand

Roy FullerCollected Poems

Gavin EwartSelected Poems

Basil BuntingCollected Poems

William EmpsonCollected PoemsMilton's GodSome Versions of Pastoral

George Wilson KnightThe Wheel of FireThe Burning Oracle

R. S. ThomasPoems

Frank KermodeThe Sense of an Ending

Stevie SmithCollected Poems

F. T. PrinceCollected Poems

Philip LarkinCollected Poems

Donald DavieSelected Poems

Geoffrey HillCollected Poems

Jonathan SpenceThe Death of Woman WangThe Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

Elizabeth JenningsSelected Poems

Keith DouglasThe Complete Poems

Hugh MacDiarmidComplete Poems

Louis MacNeiceCollected Poems

Dylan ThomasThe Poems

Nigel DennisCards of Identity

Seamus HeaneySelected Poems: 1969-1987Field WorkStation Island

Thomas KinsellaPeppercanister Poems

Paul MuldoonSelected Poems

John MontagueSelected Poems

John ArdenPlays

Joe OrtonThe Complete Plays

Flann O'BrienThe Dalkey ArchiveThe Third Policeman

Tom Stoppard



TravestiesHarold Pinter

The CaretakerThe Homecoming

Edward BondThe FoolSaved

George OrwellCollected Essays1984

Edna O'BrienA Fanatic Heart

Germany

Hugo von HofmannsthalPoems and Verse PlaysSelected ProseSelected Plays and Libretti

Rainer Maria RilkeSelected Poetry

(including the Duino Elegies)The Sonnets to OrpheusThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids BriggeNew Poems: First Part and Other Part

Hermann BrochThe SleepwalkersThe Death of VirgilHugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time

Georg TraklSelected Poems

Gottfried BennSelected Poems

Franz KafkaAmerikaThe Complete StoriesThe Blue Octavo NotebookThe TrialThe DiariesThe CastleParables, Fragments, Aphorisms

Bertolt BrechtPoems, 1913-1956The Threepenny OperaThe Good Woman of SetzuanMother Courage and Her ChildrenGalileoThe Caucasian Chalk Circle

Arthur SchnitzlerPlays and Stories

Frank WedekindLulu PlaysSpring Awakening

Karl KraussThe Last Days of Mankind

Günter EichMoles

Thomas MannThe Magic MountainStories of Three DecadesJoseph and His BrothersDoctor Faustus



Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence ManAlfred Döblin

Berlin AlexanderplatzHermann Hesse

The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)Narcissus and Goldmund

Robert MusilYoung TörlessThe Man Without Qualities

Joseph RothThe Radetzky March

Paul CelanPoems

Thomas BernhardWoodcutters

Heinrich BöllBilliards at Half-Past Nine

Ingeborg BachmannIn the Storm of Roses

Hans Magnus EnzensbergerPoems for People Who Don't Read Poems

Walter BenjaminIlluminations

Robert WalserSelected Stories

Christa WolfCassandra

Peter HandkeSlow Homecoming

Max FrischI'm Not StillerMan in the Holocene

Günter GrassThe Tin DrumThe Flounder

Friedrich DürrenmattThe Visit

Johannes BobrowskiShadow Lands

Russia

Anna AkhmatovaPoems

Leonid AndreyevSelected Tales

Andrey BelyPetersburg

Osip MandelshtamSelected Poems

Velimir KhlebnikovThe King of Time

Vladimir MayakovskyThe Bedbug and Selected Poetry

Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and the Margarita

Mikhail KuzminAlexandrian Songs

Maksim GorkyReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and AndreevAutobiography

Ivan Bunin



Selected StoriesIsaac Babel

Collected StoriesBoris Pasternak

Doctor ZhivagoSelected Poems

Yury OleshaEnvy

Marina TsvetayevaSelected Poems

Mikhail ZoshchenkoNervous People and Other Satires

Andrei PlatonovThe Foundation Pit

Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichThe Cancer WardThe Gulag ArchipelagoAugust 1914

Joesph BrodskyA Part of Speech: Poems

Scandinavia

Isak DinesenWinter's TalesSeven Gothic Tales

Martin Andersen NexøPelle the Conqueror

Knut HamsunHungerPan

Sigrid UndsetKristin Lavransdatter

Gunnar EkelöfGuide to the Underworld

Tomas TranströmerSelected Poems

Pär LagerkvistBarabbas

Lars GustafssonSelected Poems

Serbo-Croat

Ivo AndricThe Bridge on the Drina

Vasko PopaSelected Poems

Danilo KisA Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Czech

Karel CapekWar with the NewtsR.U.R.

Vaclav HavelLargo Desolato

Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

Jaroslav Seifert



Selected PoetryMiroslav Holub

The Fly

Polish

Bruno SchulzThe Street of CrocodilesSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Czeslaw MiloszSelected Poems

Witold GombrowiczThree Novels

Stanislaw LemThe InvestigationSolaris

Zbigniew HerbertSelected Poems

Adam ZagajewskiTremor

Hungarian

Attila JózsefPerched on Nothing's Branch

Ferenc JuhaszSelected Poems

Laszlo NémethGuilt

Modern Greek

C. P. CavafyCollected Poems

George SeferisCollected Poems

Nikos KazantzakisThe Greek PassionThe Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

Yannis RitsosExile and Return

Odysseas ElytisWhat I Love: Selected Poems

Angelos SikelianosSelected Poems

Yiddish

Sholem AleichemTevye the Dairyman

and The Railroad StoriesThe Nightingale

Mendele Mokher SeforimThe Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third

I. L. PeretzSelected Stories

Jacob GlatsteinSelected Poems

Moshe-Leib HalpernSelected Poems

H. Leivick (Leivick Halpern)Selected Poems



Israel Joshua SingerThe Brothers AshkenaziYoshe Kalb

Chaim GradeThe Yeshiva

S. AnskyThe Dybbuk

Mani LeibSelected Poems

Sholem AschEast River

Isaac Bashevis SingerCollected StoriesIn My Father's CourtThe Manor, the Estate, the Family MoskatSatan in Goray

Hebrew

Hayyim Nahman BialikShirot Bialik : The Epic Poems

S. Y. AgnonIn the Heart of the SeasTwenty-One Stories

Aharon AppelfeldThe Immortal BartfussBadenheim 1939

Yaakov ShabtaiPast Continuous

Yehuda AmichaiSelected PoetryTravels

A. B. YehoshuaA Late Divorce

Amos OzA Perfect Peace

T. CarmiAt the Stone of Losses

Nathan ZachSelected Poems

Dalia RavikovitchA Dress of Fire

Dan PagisSelected Poems

David ShaharThe Palace of Shattered Vessels

David GrossmanSee Under: Love

Yoram KaniukHis Daughter

Arabic

Najib MahfuzMidaq AlleyFountain and TombMiramar

AdunisSelected Poems

Mahmud DarwishThe Music of Human Flesh

Taha Husayn



An Egyptian Childhood

Latin America

Rubén DárioSelected Poetry

Jorge Luis BorgesThe Aleph and Other StoriesDreamtigers (The Maker)FiccionesLabyrinthsA Personal Anthology

Alejo CarpentierExplosion in a CathedralThe Lost StepsReasons of StateThe Kingdom of This World

Guillermo Cabrera InfanteThree Trapped TigersView of Dawn in the Tropics

Severo SarduyMaitreya

Reinaldo ArenasThe Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando

Pablo NerudaCanto GeneralResidence on EarthTwenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairFully EmpoweredSelected Poems

Nicolás GuillénSelected Poems

Octavio PazThe Collected PoemsThe Labyrinth of Solitude

César VallejoSelected PoemsSpain, Take This Cup from Me

Miguel Angel AsturiasMen of Maize

José Lezama LimaParadiso

José DonosoThe Obscene Bird of Night

Julio CortázarHopscotchAll Fires the FireBlow-up and Other Stories

Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of SolitudeLove in the Time of Cholera

Mario Vargas LlosaThe War of the End of the World

Carlos FuentesA Change of Sk inTerra Nostra

Carlos Drummond de AndradeTravelling in the Family

The West Indies

C. L. R. James



The Black JacobinsThe Future in the Present

V. S. NaipaulA Bend in the RiverA House for Mr. Biswas

Derek WalcottCollected Poems

Wilson HarrisThe Guyana Quartet

Michael ThelwellThe Harder They Come

Aimé CésaireCollected Poetry

Africa

Chinua AchebeThings Fall ApartArrow of GodNo Longer at Ease

Wole SoyinkaA Dance of the Forest

Amos TutuolaThe Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town

Christopher OkigboLabyrinths, with Path of Thunder

John Pepper Clark (-Bekederemo)Casualties: Poems

Ayi K. ArmahThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Wa Thiong'o NgugiA Grain of Wheat

Gabriel OkaraThe Fisherman's Invocation

Nadine GordimerCollected Stories

J. M. CoetzeeFoe

Athol FugardA Lesson from Aloes

Léopold S. SenghorSelected Poems

India (in English)

R. K. NarayanThe Guide

Salman RushdieMidnight's Children

Ruth Prawer JhabvalaHeat and Dust

Canada

Malcolm LowryUnder the Volcano

Robertson DaviesThe Deptford TrilogyThe Rebel Angels

Alice MunroSomething I've Been Meaning to Tell You

Northrop Frye



Fables of IdentityAnne Hébert

Selected PoemsJay Macpherson

Poems Twice ToldMargaret Atwood

SurfacingDaryl Hine

Selected Poems

Australia and New Zealand

Miles (Stella) FranklinMy Brilliant Career

Katherine MansfieldThe Short Stories

A. D. HopeCollected Poems

Patrick WhiteRiders in the ChariotA Fringe of LeavesVoss

Christina SteadThe Man Who Loved Children

Judith WrightSelected Poems

Les A. MurrayThe Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems

Thomas KeneallyThe PlaymakerSchindler's List

David MaloufAn Imaginary Life

Kevin HartPeniel and Other Poems

Peter CareyOscar and LucindaIllywhacker

The United States

Edwin Arlington RobinsonSelected Poems

Robert FrostThe Poetry

Edith WhartonCollected Short StoriesThe Age of InnocenceEthan FromeThe House of MirthThe Custom of the Country

Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaThe Professor's HouseA Lost Lady

Gertrude SteinThree LivesThe Geographical History of AmericaThe Mak ing of AmericansTender Buttons

Wallace StevensCollected Poems



The Necessary AngelOpus PosthumousThe Palm at the End of the Mind

Vachel LindsayCollected Poems

Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River Anthology

Theodore DreiserSister CarrieAn American Tragedy

Sherwood AndersonWinesburg, OhioDeath in the Woods and Other Stories

Sinclair LewisBabbittIt Can't Happen Here

Elinor WylieLast Poems

William Carlos WilliamsSpring and AllPatersonCollected Poems

Ezra PoundPersonae: Collected PoemsThe CantosLiterary Essays

Robinson JeffersSelected Poems

Marianne MooreComplete Poems

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)Selected Poems

John Crowe RansomSelected Poems

T. S. EliotThe Complete Poems and PlaysSelected Essays

Katherine Anne PorterCollected Stories

Jean ToomerCane

John Dos PassosU.S.A.

Conrad AikenCollected Poems

Eugene O'NeillLazarus LaughedThe Iceman ComethLong Day's Journey Into Night

e. e. cummingsComplete Poems

John B. WheelwrightCollected Poems

Robert FitzgeraldSpring Shade: Poems

Louise BoganThe Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems

Léonie AdamsPoems: A Selection

Hart CraneComplete Poems

and Selected Letters and Prose



Allen TateCollected Poems

F. Scott FitzgeraldBabylon Revisited and Other StoriesThe Great GatsbyTender is the Night

William FaulknerAs I Lay DyingSanctuaryLight in AugustAbsalom, Absalom!The Sound and the FuryThe Wild PalmsThe Collected StoriesThe Hamlet

Ernest HemingwayComplete Short StoriesA Farewell to ArmsThe Sun Also RisesThe Garden of Eden

John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath

Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

Nathanael WestMiss LonelyheartsA Cool MillionThe Day of the Locust

Richard WrightNative SonBlack Boy

Eudora WeltyCollected StoriesDelta WeddingThe Robber BridegroomThe Ponder Heart

Langston HughesSelected PoemsThe Big SeaI Wonder as I Wander

Edmund WilsonThe Shores of LightPatriotic Gore

Kenneth BurkeCounter-statementA Rhetoric of Motives

Joseph MitchellUp in the Old Hotel

Abraham CahanThe Rise of David Levinsky

Kay BoyleThree Short Novels

Ellen GlasgowBarren GroundVein of Iron

John P. MarquandH. M. Pulham, Esquire

John O'HaraCollected StoriesAppointment in Samarra

Henry RothCall It Sleep



Thornton WilderThree Plays

Robert Penn WarrenAll the King's MenWorld Enough and TimeSelected Poems

Delmore SchwartzSelected Poems: Summer Knowledge

Weldon KeesCollected Poems

Elizabeth BishopThe Complete Poems

John BerrymanCollected Poems

Paul BowlesThe Sheltering Sky

Randall JarrellComplete Poems

Charles OlsonThe Maximus PoemsCollected Poems

Robert HaydenCollected Poems

Robert LowellCollected Poems

Theodore RoethkeCollected PoemsStraw for the Fire

James AgeePermit Me VoyageLet Us Now Praise Famous Men

Jean GarrigueSelected Poems

May SwensonNew & Selected Things Tak ing PlaceIn Other Words

Robert DuncanBending the Bow

Richard WilburNew and Collected Poems

Richard EberhartCollected Poems

M. B. TolsonHarlem Gallery

Kenneth KochSeasons on Earth

Frank O' HaraSelected Poems

James SchuylerCollected Poems

James BaldwinThe Price of a Ticket

Saul BellowSeize the DayThe Adventures of Augie MarchHerzog

John CheeverThe StoriesBullet Park

Ralph EllisonInvisible Man

Truman Capote



In Cold BloodCarson McCullers

The Ballad of the Sad CafeThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Flannery O'ConnorComplete StoriesThe Violent Bear It AwayWise Blood

Vladimir NabokovLolitaPale Fire

Gore VidalMyra BreckenridgeLincoln

William StyronThe Long March

J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the RyeNine Stories

Wright MorrisCeremony in Lone Tree

Bernard MalamudThe StoriesThe Fixer

Norman MailerAdvertisements for MyselfThe Executioner's SongAncient Evenings

John HawkesThe CannibalSecond Skin

William GaddisThe Recognitions

Tennessee WilliamsThe Glass MenagerieA Streetcar Named DesireSummer and Smoke

Arthur MillerDeath of a Salesman

Edwin Justus MayerChildren of Darkness

Harold BrodkeyStories in an Almost Classical Mode

Ursula K. LeGuinThe Left Hand of Darkness

Raymond CarverWhere I'm Calling From

Robert CooverSpank ing the Maid

Don DeLilloWhite NoiseLibraRunning DogMao II

John CrowleyLittle, BigAegyptLove and Sleep

Guy DavenportTatlin!

James DickeyThe Early Motion



The Central MotionE. L. Doctorow

The Book of DanielWorld's Fair

Stanley ElkinThe Living End

William H. GassIn the Heart of the Heart of the CountryOmensetter's Luck

Russell HobanRiddley Walker

Denis JohnsonAngelsFiskadoroJesus' Son

Cormac McCarthyBlood MeridianSuttreeChild of God

William KennedyIronweedThe Albany Cycle

Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon

Gloria NaylorThe Women of Brewster Place

Joyce Carol OatesThem

Walker PercyThe Moviegoer

Grace PaleyThe Little Disturbances of Man

Thomas PynchonV.The Crying of Lot 49Gravity's Rainbow

Cynthia OzickEnvy, or Yiddish in AmericaThe Messiah of Stockholm

Ishmael ReedMumbo Jumbo

Philip RothPortnoy's ComplaintMy Life as a ManZuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and EpilogueThe CounterlifePatrimonyOperation Shylock

James SalterSolo FacesLight Years

Robert StoneDog SoldiersA Flag for Sunrise

John BarthThe Floating OperaThe End of the RoadThe Sot-Weed Factor

Walter AbishAlphabetical AfricaHow German Is ItEclipse Fever



I Am the Dust Under Your FeetDonald Barthelme

Forty StoriesThe Dead Father

Thomas M. DischOn Wings of Song

Paul TherouxThe Mosquito Coast

John UpdikeThe Witches of Eastwick

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.Cat's Cradle

Edmund WhiteForgetting ElenaNocturnes for the King of Naples

James McCourtTime Remaining

James WilcoxModern Baptists

A. R. AmmonsCollected PoemsSelected Longer PoemsSphere: The Form of a Motion

John AshberyThe Double Dream of SpringHouseboat DaysSelected PoemsFlow ChartHotel LautréamontAnd the Stars Were Shining

David MametAmerican BuffaloSpeed-the-Plow

David RabeStreamers

Sam ShepardSeven Plays

August WilsonFencesJoe Turner's Come and Gone

Anthony HechtCollected Earlier Poems

Edgar BowersLiving Together: New and Selected Poems

Donald JusticeSelected Poems

James MerrillFrom the First NineThe Changing Light at Sandover

W. S. MerwinSelected Poems

James WrightAbove the River: The Complete Poems

Galway KinnellSelected Poems

Philip LevineSelected Poems

Irving FeldmanNew and Selected Poems

Donald HallThe One DayOld and New Poems



Alvin FeinmanPoems

Richard HowardUntitled SubjectsFindings

John HollanderReflections on EspionageSelected PoetryTesserae

Gary SnyderNo Nature: New and Selected Poems

Charles SimicSelected Poems

Mark StrandSelected PoemsThe Continuous LifeDark Harbor

Charles WrightThe World of the Ten Thousand Things

Jay WrightDimensions of HistoryThe Double Invention of KomoSelected PoemsElaine's BookBoleros

Amy ClampittWestward

Allen GrossmanThe Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected

Howard MossNew Selected Poems

James ApplewhiteRiver Writing: An Eno Journal

J. D. McClatchyThe Rest of the Way

Alfred CornA Call in the Midst of the Crowd

Douglas CraseThe Revisionist

Rita DoveSelected Poems

Thylias MossSmall Congregations: New and Selected Poems

Edward HirschEarthly Measures

Tony KushnerAngels in America

Source: Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. Appendixes. New York:Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. © 1994 by Harold Bloom.

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