Books in Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the most famous of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daemonic poems. An eerily compelling ballad with powerful metaphysical overtones, the Mariner's hypnotic tale continues to fascinate readers and critics. The title, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

The origins of the novel can be traced to this picaresque tale of an errant knight and his comical sidekick. The new edition of the invaluable reference will aid students, writers, and readers seeking the strongest contemporary criticism of Miguel de Cervantes's beloved work. Helpful features include a bibliography, a chronology of the author's life, and an index, along with an informative introductory essay by Yale literature professor Harold Bloom.

Written by Sophocles around 425 BCE, Oedipus Rex, or Oedipus the King is a classic Greek tragedy in that it depicts the search for self-understanding, and the struggle between man and fate. The story forms the foundation for the symbolic conflict between fathers and sons. Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations offers a range of salient critical viewpoints on this, one of history's most important plays. Thoughtful analyses are supplemented by features that make this resource ideal for those preparing in-depth research papers.