He also excluded journalism other than essays and book reviews. (He found Bloom a "fine, if prejudiced, reader of poetry, but an unreliable reader of prose.") The list was offered as a mild corrective, an exercise Wood considered "amusing." He was careful with his own caveats and omissions - he pled an "ignorance of the theatre" and realized that by omitting the category, he was overlooking the likes of Harold Pinter.
Back in 1994, prompted by Harold Bloom's The Western Canon, James Wood presented Guardian readers with his own list of the best British and American writing since 1945.
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