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Updated features include:

• New Dictionary Tool — Check out the new pop-up dictionary added to Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Users who click on the Dictionary link located on the top of every page will be able to look up unfamiliar words within articles without taking the time to open a new browser window or go outside the database. The dictionary contains more than 34,000 entries with concise, informative definitions, as well as the pronunciation, etymology and syllable breaks of the word. Many entries also include variant spellings, and derived and inflected forms of the words.
• New Critical Essays — Users will find more than 800 new pieces of criticism in the database, including a selection of the finest classic criticism on the authors most commonly read in high school and college classes today. The essays place these authors in the context of their literary era and provide criticism that has proved over the years to be invaluable to readers and writers. New commentaries on Shakespeare's greatest plays are included.
• Additional New Content — New content allows users to conduct even more comprehensive research on American women writers, Asian-American writers, contemporary world poetry, authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and T. S. Eliot and much more. Many of the articles include Further Information sections that guide users to more specialized resources, as well as to links to related information about authors and their works.
• New Videos — It is now possible in Bloom's Literary Reference Online to study literature through a new medium: video. Twenty-four video segments from an exclusive interview with Harold Bloom are available, covering a variety of works and authors from the Western literary canon — from William Shakespeare to Cormac McCarthy — to other topics, such as the importance of studying literature and how to determine the aesthetic merit of a work of literature. Locate the videos by visiting the home page and selecting the Browse the Videos link under the Harold Bloom section.