The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry: A Theory of Poetry, 2nd Edition

by HaroldBloom (Author), Harold Bloom (Author)

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Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence, an insightful study of Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist, has sold over 17,000 copies in paperback since 1984 and remains a central work of criticism for students of literature. For the second edition, Bloom offers a new introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years.

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Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence, an insightful study of Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist, has sold over 17,000 copies in paperback since 1984 and remains a central work of criticism for students of literature. For the second edition, Bloom offers a new introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years.

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Published:
ISBN 10: 0195112210
ISBN 13: 9780195112214

Media Reviews

From reviews of the first edition
Bloom has helped to make the study of Romantic poetry as intellectually and spiritually challenging a branch of literary studies as one may find. --The New York Times Book Review

This book will assuredly come to be valued as a major twentieth-century statement on the subject of tradition and individual talent. --David J. Gordon, The Yale Review

Author Bio

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of numerous publications including A Map of Misreading, Yeats, The Book of J, The American Religion, The Western Canon, and Omens of the Millennium.