The Western Canon - The Aristocratic Age
The Western Canon - The Aristocratic Age

The Western Canon - The Aristocratic Age

Part three of Harold Bloom's Western Canon

Thomas Davis
Thomas Davis
27th September 2016
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England and Scotland

The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Aristocratic Age
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Troilus and Criseyde

Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Le Morte D'Arthur

Thomas Malory
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

William Dunbar
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Góngora, Luis de
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Utopia

Thomas More
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Thomas Wyatt
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Henry Howard
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Philip Sidney
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Astrophel and Stella

Philip Sidney
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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An Apology for Poetry

Philip Sidney
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Minor Poems

Edmund Spenser
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Walter Ralegh
The Aristocratic Age
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Poems and Plays

Christopher Marlowe
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Michael Drayton
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Samuel Daniel
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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A Defence of Ryme

Samuel Daniel
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Unfortunate Traveller

Thomas Nashe
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Spanish Tragedy

Thomas Kyd
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Plays and Poems

William Shakespeare
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Songs

Thomas Campion
The Aristocratic Age
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Poems

John Donne
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Sermons

John Donne
The Aristocratic Age
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Poems, Plays and Masques

Ben Jonson
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Essays

Francis Bacon
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Religio Medici

Thomas Brown
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Hydriotaphia

Thomas Brown
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Urne Buriall

Thomas Brown
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Garden of Cyrus

Thomas Brown
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Herrick, Robert
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Thomas Carew
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Richard Lovelace
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Andrew Marvell
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Temple

George Herbert
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Centuries

Thomas Traherne
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems and Thanksgivings

Thomas Traherne
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poetry

Henry Vaughan
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Poems

Richard Crashaw
The Aristocratic Age
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Plays

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
The Aristocratic Age
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Comedies, Tragedies, Poems

George Chapman
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Ford
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Malcontent

John Marston
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The White Devil

John Webster
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Duchess of Malfi

John Webster
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Changeling

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Revenger's Tragedy

Cyril Tourneur
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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A New Way to Pay Old Debts

Philip Massinger
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Compleat Angler

Izaak Walton
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Paradise Lost

John Milton
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Paradise Regained

John Milton
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Lycidas

John Milton
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Comus, and the Minor Poems

John Milton
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Samson Agonistes

John Milton
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Areopagitica

John Milton
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Brief Lives

John Aubrey
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Holy Dying

Jeremy Taylor
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Hydibras

Samuel Butler
The Aristocratic Age
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Poetry and Plays

John Dryden
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Critical Essays

John Dryden
The Aristocratic Age
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Venice Preserv'd

Thomas Otway
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Way of the World

William Congreve
The Aristocratic Age
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Love for Love.

William Congreve
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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A Tale of a Tub

Jonathan Swift
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Shorter Prose Works

Jonathan Swift
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Poems.

Jonathan Swift
The Aristocratic Age
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The Man of Mode.

George Etherege
The Aristocratic Age
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Poems.

Alexander Pope
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Beggar's Opera.

John Gay
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Life of Johnson

James Boswell
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Journals.

James Boswell
The Aristocratic Age
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Works.

Samuel Johnson
The Aristocratic Age
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Edward Gibbon
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

Edmund Burke
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Edmund Burke
The Aristocratic Age
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An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff.

Maurice Morgann
The Aristocratic Age
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Poems.

William Collins
The Aristocratic Age
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The Beaux' Strategem

George Farquhar
The Aristocratic Age
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The Recruiting Officer.

George Farquhar
The Aristocratic Age
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The Country Wife

William Wycherley
The Aristocratic Age
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The Plain Dealer.

William Wycherley
The Aristocratic Age
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Jubilate Agno

Christopher Smart
The Aristocratic Age
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A Song to David.

Christopher Smart
The Aristocratic Age
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The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith
The Aristocratic Age
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She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith
The Aristocratic Age
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The Traveller

Oliver Goldsmith
The Aristocratic Age
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The Deserted Village.

Oliver Goldsmith
The Aristocratic Age
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The School of Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Rivals.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Aristocratic Age
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Poetical Works.

William Cowper
The Aristocratic Age
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Poetical Works.

George Crabbe
The Aristocratic Age
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Moll Flanders

Defoe, Daniel
The Aristocratic Age
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Robinson Crusoe

Defoe, Daniel
The Aristocratic Age
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A Journal of the Plague Year.

Defoe, Daniel
The Aristocratic Age
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Clarissa

Samuel Richardson
The Aristocratic Age
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Pamela

Samuel Richardson
The Aristocratic Age
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Sir Charles Grandison.

Samuel Richardson
The Aristocratic Age
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Joseph Andrews

Henry Fielding
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.

Henry Fielding
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett
The Aristocratic Age
England and Scotland
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The Adventures of Roderick Random.

Tobias Smollett
The Aristocratic Age
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Laurence Sterne
The Aristocratic Age
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

Laurence Sterne
The Aristocratic Age
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Evelina.

Fanny Burney
The Aristocratic Age
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The Spectator.

Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
The Aristocratic Age
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France

Chronicles

Jean Froissart
The Aristocratic Age
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The Song of Roland.

Jean Froissart
The Aristocratic Age
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Poems.

François Villon
The Aristocratic Age
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Essays.

Michel de Montaigne
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Francois Rabelais
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Heptameron.

Marguerite de Navarre
The Aristocratic Age
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The Regrets.

Joachim Du Bellay,
The Aristocratic Age
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Délie.

Maurice Scève,
The Aristocratic Age
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Odes, Elegies, Sonnets.

Pierre Ronsard
The Aristocratic Age
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Memoirs.

Philippe de Commynes
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Les Tragiques.

Agrippa d'Aubigné
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Mark Antony

Robert Garnier
The Aristocratic Age
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The Jewesses.

Robert Garnier
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Cid

Pierre Corneille
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Polyeucte

Pierre Corneille
The Aristocratic Age
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Nicomède

Pierre Corneille
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Horace

Pierre Corneille
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Cinna

Pierre Corneille
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Rodogune.

Pierre Corneille
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Maxims

François de La Rochefoucauld
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Fables.

Jean de La Fontaine
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Misanthrope

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Tartuffe

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The School for Wives

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Learned Ladies

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Don Juan

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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School for Husbands

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Ridiculous Precieuses

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Would-Be Gentleman

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Miser

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Imaginary Invalid.

Molière
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Pensées.

Blaise Pascal
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Funerary Orations.

Bosuet, Jacques-Bénigne
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Art of Poetry

Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Lutrin.

Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Phaedra

Jean Racine
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Andromache

Jean Racine
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Britannicus

Jean Racine
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Athaliah.

Jean Racine
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Seven Comedies.

Pierre Carlet de Marivaux,
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Confessions

Rousseau, Jean–Jacques
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Émile

Rousseau, Jean–Jacques
The Aristocratic Age
France
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La Nouvelle Héloïse.

Rousseau, Jean–Jacques
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Zadig

Voltaire
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Candide

Voltaire
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Letters on England

Voltaire
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Lisbon Earthquake.

Voltaire
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Manon Lescaut.

Abbe Prevost
The Aristocratic Age
France
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The Princess of Cleves.

Madame de La Fayette
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Products of the Perfected Civilization.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
The Aristocratic Age
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Rameau's Nephew.

Denis Diderot
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Dangerous Liaisons.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Aristocratic Age
France
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Germany

In Praise of Folly.

Erasmus of Rotterdam
The Aristocratic Age
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Faust, Parts One and Two

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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Dichtung und Wahrheit

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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Egmont

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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Elective Affinities

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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Poems

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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Italian Journey

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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Verse Plays

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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Hermann and Dorothea

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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Roman Elegies

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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Venetian Epigrams

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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West-Eastern Divan.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Aristocratic Age
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The Robbers

Friedrich Schiller
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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Mary Stuart

Friedrich Schiller
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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Wallenstein

Friedrich Schiller
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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Don Carlos

Friedrich Schiller
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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On the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature.

Friedrich Schiller
The Aristocratic Age
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Laocoön

Gotthold Lessing
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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Nathan the Wise.

Gotthold Lessing
The Aristocratic Age
Germany
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Hymns and Fragments

Freidrich Hölderlin
The Aristocratic Age
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Selected Poems.

Freidrich Hölderlin
The Aristocratic Age
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Five Plays

Heinrich von Kleist
The Aristocratic Age
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Stories.

Heinrich von Kleist
The Aristocratic Age
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England and Scotland

The Canterbury Tales

Troilus and Criseyde

Le Morte D'Arthur

Poems

Poems

Utopia

Poems

Poems

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Astrophel and Stella

An Apology for Poetry

Poems

The Faerie Queene

The Minor Poems

Poems

Poems and Plays

Poems

Poems

A Defence of Ryme

The Unfortunate Traveller

The Spanish Tragedy

Plays and Poems

Songs

Poems

Sermons

Poems, Plays and Masques

Essays

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Religio Medici

Hydriotaphia

Urne Buriall

The Garden of Cyrus

Leviathan

Poems

Poems

Poems

Poems

The Temple

Centuries

Poems and Thanksgivings

Poetry

Poems

Poems

Plays

Comedies, Tragedies, Poems

Tis Pity She's a Whore

The Malcontent

The White Devil

The Duchess of Malfi

The Changeling

The Revenger's Tragedy

A New Way to Pay Old Debts

The Pilgrim's Progress

The Compleat Angler

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Lycidas

Comus, and the Minor Poems

Samson Agonistes

Areopagitica

Brief Lives

Holy Dying

Hydibras

Poetry and Plays

Critical Essays

Venice Preserv'd

The Way of the World

Love for Love.

A Tale of a Tub

Gulliver's Travels

Shorter Prose Works

Poems.

The Man of Mode.

Poems.

The Beggar's Opera.

Life of Johnson

Journals.

Works.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

Reflections on the Revolution in France.

An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff.

Poems.

The Beaux' Strategem

The Recruiting Officer.

The Country Wife

The Plain Dealer.

Jubilate Agno

A Song to David.

The Vicar of Wakefield

She Stoops to Conquer

The Traveller

The Deserted Village.

The School of Scandal

The Rivals.

Poetical Works.

Poetical Works.

Moll Flanders

Robinson Crusoe

A Journal of the Plague Year.

Clarissa

Pamela

Sir Charles Grandison.

Joseph Andrews

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Adventures of Roderick Random.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

Evelina.

The Spectator.

Group
France

Chronicles

The Song of Roland.

Poems.

Essays.

Gargantua and Pantagruel.

The Heptameron.

The Regrets.

Délie.

Odes, Elegies, Sonnets.

Memoirs.

Les Tragiques.

Mark Antony

The Jewesses.

The Cid

Polyeucte

Nicomède

Horace

Cinna

Rodogune.

Maxims

Fables.

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.

Pensées.

Funerary Orations.

The Art of Poetry

Lutrin.

Phaedra

Andromache

Britannicus

Athaliah.

Seven Comedies.

The Confessions

Émile

La Nouvelle Héloïse.

Zadig

Candide

Letters on England

The Lisbon Earthquake.

Manon Lescaut.

The Princess of Cleves.

Products of the Perfected Civilization.

Rameau's Nephew.

Dangerous Liaisons.

Group
Germany

In Praise of Folly.

Faust, Parts One and Two

Dichtung und Wahrheit

Egmont

Elective Affinities

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Poems

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering

Italian Journey

Verse Plays

Hermann and Dorothea

Roman Elegies

Venetian Epigrams

West-Eastern Divan.

The Robbers

Mary Stuart

Wallenstein

Don Carlos

On the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature.

Laocoön

Nathan the Wise.

Hymns and Fragments

Selected Poems.

Five Plays

Stories.