Summary
This title presents a collection of some of the best criticism of America's greatest women poets, including Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, and Sylvia Plath. It opens with an introductory critical essay by Harold Bloom and concludes with biographical notes on the authors, notes on the contributors, and a bibliography containing general works and studies of each author.
This is an eBook version of the original edition of this Critical Cosmos title, containing all the essays published in the first print edition.
About the Author(s)
Harold Bloom was Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. Educated at Cornell and Yale universities, Bloom authored more than 40 books; wrote hundreds of articles, reviews, and editorial introductions; and edited hundreds of scholarly volumes. In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.