/lit/ - Literature

>>18576415
Essentials would be Homer, the tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides), certainly Aristotle (Rhetoric, Poetics), Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, and Plutarch's lives. If you enjoyed what you read I would then add Hesiod (as a contemporary of Homer), Aristophanes (comedy), Plato, maybe Herodotus if you enjoy the wacky history side of things, and whatever other Greeks and Romans take your fancy. But the essentials should be more or less sufficient, and if I had to narrow it down to 5 authors it would be Homer (father of Western literature), the three tragedians (birth of drama) and Aristotle (first literary critic, established theatrical conventions).

What are some books, fiction or philosophical, which deal the power of the imagination, its strengths and weaknesses, in a similar manner to how Proust's work deals with memory?