Bloom’s Classic Critical Views is a new series presenting a selection of the most
important older literary criticism on the greatest authors commonly read in high
school and college classes today. Unlike the Bloom’s Modern Critical Views series,
which for more than 20 years has provided the best contemporary criticism on great
authors, Bloom’s Classic Critical Views attempts to present the authors in the con-
text of their time and to provide criticism that has proved over the years to be the
most valuable to readers and writers. Selections range from contemporary reviews
in popular magazines, which demonstrate how a work was received in its own era,
to profound essays by some of the strongest critics in the British and American tradi-
tion, including Henry James, G.K. Chesterton, Matthew Arnold, and many more.
Some of the critical essays and extracts presented here have appeared previously
in other titles edited by Harold Bloom, such as the New Moulton’s Library of Literary
Criticism. Other selections appear here for the frst time in any book by this publisher.
All were selected under Harold Bloom’s guidance.
In addition, each volume in this series contains a series of essays by a con-
temporary expert, who comments on the most important critical selections,
putting them in context and suggesting how they might be used by a student
writer to infuence his or her own writing. This series is intended above all for
students, to help them think more deeply and write more powerfully about great
writers and their works.
27本，目录如下：【本论坛共享12本，其余缺本，望热心网友补齐】
alfred, Lord tennyson
Benjamin Franklin
the Brontës
Charles Dickens
edgar allan poe
Geoffrey Chaucer
George eliot
George Gordon, Lord Byron
henry David thoreau
herman Melville
Jane austen
John Donne and the Metaphysical poets
John Milton
Jonathan Swift
Mark twain
Mary Shelley
nathaniel hawthorne
Oscar Wilde
percy Shelley
ralph Waldo emerson
robert Browning
Samuel taylor Coleridge
Stephen Crane
Walt Whitman
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth