Truman Capote

by Harold Bloom

Published 15 January 2003
Provides a brief biography of Truman Capote, and discusses plots, themes, life influences, and characters of his major works.

Thomas Pynchon

by Harold Bloom

Published 1 October 1987
A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the American novelist.

Ralph Ellison

by Harold Bloom

Published 1 December 1986
-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers



Edmund Spenser

by Sir William Golding and Harold Bloom

Published 1 August 1986
Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works.

Dante Alighieri

by Harold Bloom

Published January 2004


A.R. Ammons

by Sir William Golding

Published 1 March 1986

Cynthia Ozick

by Sir William Golding

Published 1 August 1986


Hart Crane

by Sir William Golding

Published 1 June 1986

A collection of critical essays on English poetry during the Age of Sensibility and the Sublime, the half-century between the death of Alexander Pope in 1744 and the death of Robert Burns in 1796.



James Merrill

by Sir William Golding

Published 1 June 1986

John Berryman

by Sir William Golding

Published 1 April 1989

Each title features:
- A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world
- Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study
- A useful chronology of the writer's life
- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.