The Anxiety of Influence

A Theory of Poetry

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

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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Utgivningsdatum:1997-07-03
Mått:140 x 215 x 15 mm
Vikt:231 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Upplaga:2
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195112214

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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.

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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*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*"The most significant work that the gifted scholar-critic, Harold Bloom, has yet written."--Commonweal*