Bloom's classic critical views

Provides a brief biography of English author Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a selection of personal reminiscences by his contemporaries, and critical essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on specific Coleridge works.

Provides a brief biography of English Romantic poet Percy Shelley, a selection of personal reminiscences by his contemporaries, and critical essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on specific Shelley works.

Provides a brief biography of nineteenth-century English poet and playwright Robert Browning, a selection of personal reminiscences by his contemporaries, and critical essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on specific Browning works.

Contains selections of literary criticism written between 1813 and 1913 that look at the life, general career, and specific works of English novelist Jane Austen.

Contains a selection of older literary criticism on nineteenth-century British author Mary Shelley and her works, including "Frankenstein, " and lesser-known novels.