Alan Rawes is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester. Jonathon Shears is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University

• Notes on ContributorsAbbreviations Introduction Jonathon Shears and Alan RawesReading With Bloom1. Keats and his ‘Composite Precursor[s]’ in The Fall of Hyperion Alan Rawes2. The Decline of America: Bloom’s Monumental Theory of History . Alistair Heys3. ‘Continuity in the self’: Wordsworth, Byron, Bloom Jonathon Shears4. The Blooming of Hamlet James SoderholmReading Against Bloom5. The Limits of ‘perfect solipsism’: Bloom’s Map and the Origins of Shelley’s Dejection Sally West6. Apophrades, Adonais and the Return of the Shelleys Graham Allen7. Towards a Feminist Revisionism of an Aesthetics of Mastery:Harold Bloom, neo-Romanticism and the Critical Sublime Mary Orr8. Childe Roland’s Literate Despair Andrew M. StaufferReading Beyond Bloom9. Superscriptions of Bliss: Influence and Form in the Poetry of Lawrence David Duff10. How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading Paul H. Fry11. ‘The strong dead return’: The Transgressive Shades of Bloom’s Daemon Julian Wolfreys12. The Impossibility of Reading: Bloom and the Yale School of Criticism Arthur BradleyIndex

Alan Rawes is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester. Jonathon Shears is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University

• Notes on ContributorsAbbreviations Introduction Jonathon Shears and Alan RawesReading With Bloom1. Keats and his ‘Composite Precursor[s]’ in The Fall of Hyperion Alan Rawes2. The Decline of America: Bloom’s Monumental Theory of History . Alistair Heys3. ‘Continuity in the self’: Wordsworth, Byron, Bloom Jonathon Shears4. The Blooming of Hamlet James SoderholmReading Against Bloom5. The Limits of ‘perfect solipsism’: Bloom’s Map and the Origins of Shelley’s Dejection Sally West6. Apophrades, Adonais and the Return of the Shelleys Graham Allen7. Towards a Feminist Revisionism of an Aesthetics of Mastery:Harold Bloom, neo-Romanticism and the Critical Sublime Mary Orr8. Childe Roland’s Literate Despair Andrew M. StaufferReading Beyond Bloom9. Superscriptions of Bliss: Influence and Form in the Poetry of Lawrence David Duff10. How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading Paul H. Fry11. ‘The strong dead return’: The Transgressive Shades of Bloom’s Daemon Julian Wolfreys12. The Impossibility of Reading: Bloom and the Yale School of Criticism Arthur BradleyIndex

Alan Rawes is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester. Jonathon Shears is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University

• Notes on ContributorsAbbreviations Introduction Jonathon Shears and Alan RawesReading With Bloom1. Keats and his ‘Composite Precursor[s]’ in The Fall of Hyperion Alan Rawes2. The Decline of America: Bloom’s Monumental Theory of History . Alistair Heys3. ‘Continuity in the self’: Wordsworth, Byron, Bloom Jonathon Shears4. The Blooming of Hamlet James SoderholmReading Against Bloom5. The Limits of ‘perfect solipsism’: Bloom’s Map and the Origins of Shelley’s Dejection Sally West6. Apophrades, Adonais and the Return of the Shelleys Graham Allen7. Towards a Feminist Revisionism of an Aesthetics of Mastery:Harold Bloom, neo-Romanticism and the Critical Sublime Mary Orr8. Childe Roland’s Literate Despair Andrew M. StaufferReading Beyond Bloom9. Superscriptions of Bliss: Influence and Form in the Poetry of Lawrence David Duff10. How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading Paul H. Fry11. ‘The strong dead return’: The Transgressive Shades of Bloom’s Daemon Julian Wolfreys12. The Impossibility of Reading: Bloom and the Yale School of Criticism Arthur BradleyIndex