Let Yale University Harold Bloom?author of The Western Canon and a leading authority on literature?help develop your understanding of the worlds great literary works. Unlike other study guides, Viva Blooms Notes offers a wide selection of critical analyses by renowned scholars, as well as concise biographical and bibliographical information and a comprehensive thematic d Let Yale University Harold Bloom?author of The Western Canon and a leading authority on literature?help develop your understanding of the worlds great literary works. Unlike other study guides, Viva Blooms Notes offers a wide selection of critical analyses by renowned scholars, as well as concise biographical and bibliographical information and a comprehensive thematic discussion of the plot?all in one handbook. Includes: Introduction by Harold Bloom Thematic and Structural Analysis List of Characters Extracts of Major Critical Essays Extensive Bibliography Index of Themes and Ideas The ideal aid to all students, Viva Blooms Notes is a definitive guide for independent study and a single source for footnoting essays and research papers. About The Author: Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English at the New York University Graduate School. He is the author of twenty books and the editor of more than thirty anthologies of literature and literary criticism. Professor Blooms works include Shelleys Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blakes Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), and Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Blooms provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books are The American Religion (1992) and The Western Canon (1994). Professor Bloom earned his PhD from Yale University in 1955 and has served on the Yale faculty since then. He is a 1985 MacArthur Foundation Award recipient and served as the Charles Eliot Norton Prof