John Keats (Bloom's Major Poets)John Keats is unique among all post-Shakespearean poets in that he offers "an example of what human life at its most wise and compassionate," according to Bloom. Study his "Ode to a Grecian Urn," "The Eve of St. Agnes," and others. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. History’s greatest poets are covered in one series with expert analysis by Harold Bloom and other critics.
It's Christmas Eve and Harold needs a Christmas tree. So, with purple crayon in hand, he sets off to find one. Before long, Harold arives at the North pole, where a snowbound Santa Claus needs his help to save Christmas.
Harold needs a picture for his bedroom wall. So he takes his purple crayon and begins to create a whole new world around him. But then he notices he has gotten very small-half the size of a daisy! Only a very clever artist can find his way home now.
A compilation of four Harold and the Purple Crayon stories that have been adapted in the I Can Read format.
The Giant Garden
Animals, Animals, Animals!
The Birthday Present
Harold Finds a Friend
Harold creates fabulous tales and worlds with one continuous stroke of his purple crayon against a blank canvas. In these books, Harold moves through a fully-rendered, poorly drawn, heavily-outlined, colorized, real world. He uses the crayon occasionally as a kind of super power/magic wand to draw objects to get himself out of trouble.
For many, The Tempest constitutes Shakespeare's farewell to the stage and stands as one of the most evocative and moving explorations of human possibilities and limits. Though today the play is typically called a romance, Harold Bloom suggests that it is a comedy marked by a sobering awareness of finality and the advance of time. In this new collection of critical essays, The Tempest is examined from a variety of schools of criticism. A chronology of Shakespeare's life, a bibliography of his works, an index for quick reference, and an introduction by Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom round out this volume.
