The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, 2nd Edition By Harold Bloom Oxford University Press | Pub. Date: 1997-04-10 | ISBN: 0195112210 | 208 pages | RARed PDF | 5.7 MB
Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts are a strong misreading of thise that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of deconstruction and poststructuralist literary theory. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.