Harold Bloom's Concise Western Canon

William Shakespeare, Dante Aligheri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Miguel Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wilhem Goethe, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Freud, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Fernando Pessoa, Samuel Beckett

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