The complete online text of The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton.

Acknowledged as a leading American biographer of the nineteenth century, James Parton achieved both financial rewards and literary recognition. Parton set high standards for popular biography and utilized research techniques that provided useful examples...

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, selected and with Commentary by Harold Bloom, New York: HarperCollins, 2004. 972 pp. HAROLD BLOOM is to be congratulated for his courage in speaking up for literary standards in an age...

IN 1994 HAROLD Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale, and arguably the most important -- and surely the best read -- literary commentator of our times, authored The Western Canon: Books and Schools of the Ages. In this book Bloom produced a...