Harold Bloom

Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

GERALD AUTOR BLOOM

At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the renowned literary critic explores reasons for reading, offering inspirational analyses of seminal works of literature, and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring. 150,000 first printing.

How to Read and why

A collection of critical essays on Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" arranged in chronological order of publication.

Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past

A study guide to Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," featuring a biographical sketch of the author, background information, a list of characters, a summary and analysis, and a selection of critical responses.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Albert Rolls

Presents a collection of essays discussing aspects of William Shakespeare's historical drama, plus a summary of the play, key passages, characters and biographical information.

Henry V

Presents a collection of critical essays on the comedic works of William Shakespeare.

Comedies

William Shakespeare

Bruce Fish

Becky Fish

Provides insight into four of Frost's poems along with a short history of the man and his life.

Robert Frost

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of the African American poets Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson and Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

African-American Poets

A collection of eight critical essays on Conrad's novel, arranged in chronological order of publication.

Joseph Conrad's Nostromo

Sir William Golding

Essays discuss themes, style, narrative strategies, and biographical influences in Flaubert's masterpiece

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Figures of Capable Imagination

Critical essays examine the works of a wide range of authors, including Walt Whitman, Sigmund Freud, Hart Crane, and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Towards a Theory of Revisionism

Agon

William Faulkner

A collection of critical essays on Faulkner's "The sound and the fury," arranged in chronological order of their original publication

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Thomas Hardy

A collection of eight critical essays on Thomas Hardy's last major novel, arranged in chronological order of publication.

Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

Virgil

A collection of six critical essays on Virgil's epic poem, arranged in chronological order of original publication.

Virgil's Aeneid

William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

A selection of criticism, arranged in chronological order of publication, devoted to the writings of Vladimir Nabokov.

Vladimir Nabokov

A collection of seven critical essays discussing Tolstoy's novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

Harold Irving Bloom

Explores the impact of the English romantic tradition on the poetry of Yeats

Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

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