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1) Robert Frost
Summary
A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the American poet who specialized in the relationship between humans and nature.
7) John Donne
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Summary
John Donne's poetry has been so influential in the 17th and 20th centuries that, Bloom suggests, his idiosyncratic tonalities are forgotten.
8) John Milton
Summary
Written just after the Restoration period in England, Milton's blank verse epic, Paradise Lost, dramatized man's "fortunate fall" from grace and earned him a permanent place in the canon.
10) Robert Frost
Summary
Bloom considers Frost a severe poet, savage and original in his primal vision. This edition of Bloom looks at Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Oven Bird," "Birches," "Design," and "Directive."
13) Edgar Allan Poe
Summary
Edgar Allan Poe's eerie stories and poems continue to captivate readers to this day. He not only wrote such gothic classics as "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Fall of the House of Usher," he also lived a haunted li
18) Walt Whitman
Summary
Bloom refers to Walt Whitman as, in every good sense, our national poet. This title examines numerous poems from the author, including "Song of Myself," "The Sleepers," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," and more.