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Bloom's Literary Reference Online features:
- Authors: biographies of thousands of authors from around the world, browsable by nationality, type of writing, or time periods ranging from ancient to modern
- Works: overviews, synopses, analyses, and literary criticism of thousands of works—from novels to poetry to plays—browsable by genre and time period or alphabetically
- Videos: video segments covering a range of topics—from biographies of writers to critical analysis of plays to literary genres
- Topics and Themes: in-depth, full-text entries on literary movements, literary groups, magazines and newspapers, and historical events that help place literature in context, as well as definitions of literary terms
- Timeline: more than 15,000 entries on births, deaths, publications, and events in world literature from the ancient era to the present day
- Dictionary: more than 34,000 entries with concise, informative definitions, many with pronunciation, etymology, and syllable breaks of the word
- Characters: information on more than 42,000 major and minor literary characters, including where they first appeared, what part they played in the plot, and how they are related to other literary characters
- Bloom's How to Write about: essays on how to write about literature, including essays by Harold Bloom on popularly assigned authors
- Harold Bloom's Western Canon: Professor Bloom's selections of the major works of Western literature through the present day
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