Hans Christian Andersen

Bloom's Modern Critical Views is a gathering of a representative selection of the best contemporary criticism of the poets, novelists, essayists, and playwrights of the Western world who are most widely studied and read. Each volume opens with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, in which he offers his own insights into the author's work, and an editor's note that comments on the individual analyses that follow. Also included are bibliographies for each author, brief notes on the contributors, and useful chronologies. Bloom's Modern Critical Views is a critical presentation of those men and women who, from medieval times to the present, have shaped the Western tradition.

One of our most popular, respected, and controversial literary critics, Yale University professor Harold Bloom s books about, variously, Shakespeare, the Bible, and the classic literature are as erudite as they are accessible.