Bloom, Harold

A collection of eight critical essays on Chaucer's "Knight's Tale," arranged chronologically in order of their original publication.

Presents biographical information on the Polish-born English novelist, along with essays commenting on the themes, symbols, and ideas that appear in his works.

A collection of nine critical essays on Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale" arranged in chronological order of publication.

Contains plot summaries and character lists for five novels by Jane Austen, including "Sense and Sensibility," "Pride and Prejudice," "Mansfield Park," "Emma," and "Persuasion," each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.

Presents twentieth-century critical essays on Homer's "Odyssey" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

"Harold Bloom, named "The indispensible critic" by the New York Review of Books, returns with a definitive yet personal book on twelve American writers upon whose work he believes the American canon is built. While his references to American writers are wide-ranging, he focuses on twelve: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Hart Crane, those writers whose works make up what he calls the American sublime. A book by our greatest literary critic writing on these great American writers will be a must-read for anyone interested in American literature"--.