Complex sentence: The Narrow Road to the Deep North bears comparison to other eminent pilgrimage texts in the Western canon such as Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, Dr Samuel Johnson in Rasselas, or, perhaps in more recent times, Cormac McCarthy in The Road.
Split into simpler sentences: The Narrow Road to the Deep North bears comparison to other eminent pilgrimage texts in the Western canon. Closely related examples might be Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, Dr Samuel Johnson in Rasselas, or, perhaps in more recent times, Cormac McCarthy in The Road.