Also featured is a comprehensive biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a user's guide, detailed plot summaries of each novel, extracts from important critical essays, a complete bibliography of Poe's works, an index of themes and ideas, and editor's notes and introduction by Harold Bloom. This series, Bloom's Major Poets, 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; preeminent literary critic of our time.