William Shakespeare

By Harold Bloom

Dante

By

Christopher Marlowe

By Harold Bloom

A collection of critical essays on Marlowe and his works. Also includes a chronology of his life.

Pre-Raphaelite poets

By

Gertrude Stein

By

Geoffrey Hill

By

Herman Melville

By Harold Bloom

A collection of critical essays on Melville and his works. Also includes a chronology of events in the author's life.

Tom Stoppard

By Harold Bloom

Fourteen critical essays, on the works of the famous English playwright.

Edmund Spenser

By

Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works.

Virginia Woolf

By

Eighteen critical essays on the works of the English writer who experimented with stream-of-consciousness and other innovative techniques.