Are you kidding? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon#Literary_canon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon#Literary_canon There is literally a li

Are you kidding? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon#Literary_canon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon#Literary_canon There is literally a literary canon. It has certainly evolved over time, but almost everything I was assigned to read in my high school literature classes was in it. My personal opinion is that no one would bother reading Inferno today if it wasn't in the canon.