Bloom’s Literature: Full-Text Poems and More

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Bloom’s Literature: Full-Text Poems and More

Infobase is proud to announce that more than 2,700 full-text poems have been added to Bloom’s Literature, providing even greater support to a key part of the school curriculum. The poems are presented in an easily readable format and are accessible via Search or by selecting “Full-Text Poems” from the “More” drop-down menu at the top of the page. Each poem has a corresponding analytical entry in the database, allowing students and researchers to enhance their understanding of a poem’s power by reading the poem alongside criticism of it.

Here is a sample of the hundreds of poets whose full-text poems have been added to the database:

  • William Blake
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • William Cullen Bryant
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Stephen Crane
  • E.E. Cummings
  • John Donne
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Robert Frost
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • John Keats
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Ezra Pound
  • Christina Rossetti
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Edith Wharton
  • Walt Whitman
  • William Butler Yeats.

In addition, even more new content has been added to Bloom’s Literature, including the full content of 17 books from the Bloom’s Modern Critical Views and Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations series, and 14 new feature-film adaptations of great literary works.

Content from the following books has been added:

  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Romeo & Juliet – William Shakespeare
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: African-American Poets, Volume I
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: African-American Poets, Volume II
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Aldous Huxley
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: American Women Poets 1650–1950
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Cormac McCarthy
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Italo Calvino
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Kurt Vonnegut
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Margaret Atwood
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Octavio Paz
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Ray Bradbury
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: W. E. B. DuBois
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Don Delillo
  • Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: William Gaddis

The following videos of major feature films are included in their entirety:

  • King Lear: Orson Welles Version
  • King Lear: Boris Pasternak Adaptation
  • Othello
  • Gulliver’s Travels
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Battle of Blood Island
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Pride and Prejudice (featuring Sir Laurence Olivier)
  • The Man on the Eiffel Tower
  • Way Down South
  • Rain
  • The Duel in Macbeth
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • Luigi Pirandello’s Henry IV

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