Langston Hughes (Modern Critical Views S.) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555463762 ISBN 13: 9781555463762

Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

About this title

Review:

"An excellent and balanced discussion..."

"The accounts offer students an opportunity to absorb serious analytical styles."

.,."excellent critical guide sets edited by Harold Bloom...recommended picks for audiences of young adults studying literature."

"A publishing venture almost without precedent both in its scope and in the fact that it is guided by a single critical intelligence."

"This collection of previously published essays, edited by the distinguished literary scholar Harold Bloom, is an excellent addition to the Wells critical canon."

"Harold Bloom adds some fantastic critical literary guides, providing interpretations and issues that should reach a wide audience from adults to young adults at the high school and college levels."

About the Author:

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School

About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1555463762
• ISBN 13: 9781555463762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Bloom Harold