Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own 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. Although Bloom was never the leader of any critical "camp," his argument that all literary texts are a response to those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of deconstruction and poststructuralist literary theory in this country. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature and has sold over 17,000 copies in paperback since 1984. Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorably quotable, Bloom's book maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded--neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics.
This second edition contains a new Introduction, which explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years.criticism of the past twenty years. Here, Bloom asserts that the anxiety of influence comes out of a complex act of strong misreading, a creative interpretation he calls "poetic misprision." The influence-anxiety does not so much concern the forerunner but rather is an anxiety achieved in and by the story, novel, play, poem, or essay. In other words, without Keats's reading of Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, we could not have Keats's odes and sonnets and his two Hyperions .
Given the enormous attention generated by Bloom's controversial The Western Cannon , this new edition is certain to find a readymade audience among the new generation of scholars, students, and layreaders interested in the Bloom cannon.

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Bloom, Harold

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

2nd ed., New York, New York State, 1997

Second edition, New York, 1997

2nd ed, New York, 1996

2nd Edition, PS, 1997

1973

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Front Cover ......Page 1
Back Cover ......Page 2
Title Page ......Page 4
Copyright ......Page 5
Contents ......Page 7
Preface ......Page 8
Preface II ......Page 16
Preface III ......Page 21
Preface IV......Page 25
Prologue ......Page 45
Quotation ......Page 46
Introduction ......Page 47
Synopsis: Six Revolutionary Ratios......Page 56
One......Page 59
Quotation ......Page 60
Clinamen or Poetic Misprison......Page 61
Two ......Page 88
Quotation ......Page 89
Tessera or Completation and Antithesis......Page 90
Three ......Page 115
Quotation ......Page 116
Kenosis or Repetition and Discontinuity ......Page 117
Interchapter: A Manifesto for Antihetical Criticism ......Page 133
Four ......Page 137
Quotation ......Page 138
Daemonization or The Counter-Sublime ......Page 139
Five ......Page 153
Quotation ......Page 154
Askesis or Purgation and Solipsism......Page 155
Six......Page 177
Quotation ......Page 178
Apophrades or Return of the Dead ......Page 179
Epilogue......Page 196

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 precursors and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts are a strong misreading of those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of criticism and post-structuralist literary theory. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.
Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorable quotations, this second edition of Bloom's classic work maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded - neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics. A new introduction, centering upon Shakespeare and Marlowe explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking, and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past quarter of a century.

Harold Bloom's __leader of any critical ''camp,'' his argument that all literary texts are a response to those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of deconstruction and poststructuralist literary theory in this country. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature____and has sold over 17,000 copies in paperback since 1984. Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorably quotable, Bloom's book maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded--neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics.____Hyperions____The Western Cannon__

A study of the Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For this second edition Bloom offers a new introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism.

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