Harold Bloom

A critical overview of the mid-nineteenth-century novel features the writings of Jerome Beaty, Susan Ostrov Weisser, Warren Edminster, and other scholars.

This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals at length with the important shorter works as well, showing their …