Novalis, Hoffmann, Heine, Nietzsche, Wagner, Pusjkin, Gogol, Turgenjev, Tolstoj, Dostojevskij, Tsjekhov, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe; huff, jeg blir nesten andpusten, her er utvalget nesten for stort. Om "The Democratic Age" (år 1832-1900) skriver Bloom:
- - - I have located Vico's Democratic Age in the post-Goethean nineteenth century, when the literature of Italy and 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 and American literature begins.