Western Canon by Harold Bloom (1994)- Theocratic Age

List of books in the Western Canon (1994) of American literary critic Harold Bloom. Here is the Theocratic Age as he describes in the book:
"Here, as in the following lists, I suggest translations whenever I have derived particular pleasure and insight from those now readily available. There are not many valuable works of ancient Greek and Latin literature that are not here, but the common reader is unlikely to have time to read them. As history lengthens, the older canon necessarily narrows. Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of aesthetic interest. I would think that, of all the books on this first list, once the reader is conversant in the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran. Whether for aesthetic and spiritual power or the influence it will have upon all of our futures, ignorance of the Koran is foolish and increasingly dangerous.
I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures, and fundamental literary texts, because of their influence on the Western Canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed in the translations available to us."
The Western Canon: The Books and School of theAges:
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