Collects literary critic Harold Bloom's introductions on seventy-seven important novelists, arranged chronologically from Miguel de Cervantes to Amy Tan, from volumes in his Modern Critical Views and Modern Critical Interpretations series.
Contains a collection of essays by Harold Bloom that provide critical assessments of the works and ideas of twenty great essayists and prophets, including Dryden, Samuel Jonhson, Emerson, Nietzsche, Freud, Huxley, and Camus.
Presents a comprehensive collection of essays that critically examines a number of short story writers and their works including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Jack London, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and more.
Presents a comprehensive critical analysis of several classic dramas and dramatists including a profile of the Oedipus plays, some of the works of William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neill, and others.
Presents a comprehensive collection of essays that critically examines a number of poets and their works including William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, and more.
Presents a comprehensive collection of essays that critically examines epic literature including "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, Dante's "Divine Comedy," Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," and more.
