Bloom skriver om "The Aristocratic Age" (år 1321-1832):
- - - It 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 a canonical master, and in other instances I attempt to call attention to authors and books that I consider canonical but rather neglected. From this list onward, many good writers who are not quite central are omitted.




































![The Spectator. [By Joseph Addison, Richard Steele and Others]](https://static.bokelskere.no/assets/1e/1e58d1e1c352421ced970fcdbd6efc09.jpg?w=320&fmt=jpeg)













El Cid og Cinna.







The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The School for Wives, The Learned Ladies, Don Juan, School for Husbands, Ridiculous Precieuses, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid





Andromache og Athaliah


Seven Comedies.


















Samlede dikt, romerske elegier og venetiske epigrammer.











