Nunca he estado más de acuerdo con un hit parade literario. Al menos nadie puede acusar a sir Harold Bloom de querer favorecer a sus amigos.
Sólo lamento las omisiones de Lord Byron, Edmond Jabés, Katherine Mansfield... ¡y Sor Juana!
Por estricto orden alfabético:
Dante Alighieri, Jane Austen, Isaac Bábel, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jane Brontë, Robert Browning, Italo Calvino, Alejo Carpentier, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Paul Celan, Luis Cernuda, Miguel de Cervantes, Hart Crane, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Chéjov, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Fiodor Dostoievski, José María Eca de Queiroz, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, El Yavista, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Sigmund Freud, Robert Frost, Federico García Lorca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Homero, Víctor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Samuel Johnson, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Soren Kierkegaard, D. H. Lawrence, Giacomo Leopardi, Lucrecio, Joaquim Machado de Assis, Mahoma, Thomas Mann, Herman Melville, John Milton, Molière, Michel de Montaigne, Eugenio Montale, Dama Murasaki, Iris Murdoch, Gérard de Nerval, Friedrich Nietzsche, Flannery O'Connor, Walter Pater, Octavio Paz, Fernando Pessoa, Alexander Pope, Luigi Pirandello, Platón, Marcel Proust, Rainer Marie Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, San Agustín, San Pablo, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe-Shelley, Sócrates, Stendhal, Wallace Stevens, Jonathan Swift, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson, León Tolstoi, Mark Twain, Paul Valéry, Luis Vaz de Camões, Virgilio, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats.
Dante Alighieri, Jane Austen, Isaac Bábel, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jane Brontë, Robert Browning, Italo Calvino, Alejo Carpentier, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Paul Celan, Luis Cernuda, Miguel de Cervantes, Hart Crane, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Chéjov, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Fiodor Dostoievski, José María Eca de Queiroz, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, El Yavista, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Sigmund Freud, Robert Frost, Federico García Lorca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Homero, Víctor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Samuel Johnson, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Soren Kierkegaard, D. H. Lawrence, Giacomo Leopardi, Lucrecio, Joaquim Machado de Assis, Mahoma, Thomas Mann, Herman Melville, John Milton, Molière, Michel de Montaigne, Eugenio Montale, Dama Murasaki, Iris Murdoch, Gérard de Nerval, Friedrich Nietzsche, Flannery O'Connor, Walter Pater, Octavio Paz, Fernando Pessoa, Alexander Pope, Luigi Pirandello, Platón, Marcel Proust, Rainer Marie Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, San Agustín, San Pablo, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe-Shelley, Sócrates, Stendhal, Wallace Stevens, Jonathan Swift, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson, León Tolstoi, Mark Twain, Paul Valéry, Luis Vaz de Camões, Virgilio, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats.