Hah! You summed up the problems with this list much better than I did.

Morte D'Arthur? Where are you?

I was going to repeat all the good points you made back to you, but the top-heaviness of it and the author repetition. I took all my English classes in college in various pre-1800 authors. Does that mean I was wasting my time with all that Spencer, Malory, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe et al.?

Two De Sade and one Wodehouse??