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The Anxiety of Influence
by Harold Bloom
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry is a 1973 book by Harold Bloom on the anxiety of influence in writing poetry. It was the first in a series of books that advanced a new "revisionary" or antithetical approach to literary criticism. Bloom's central thesis is that poets are hindered in their creative process by the ambiguous relationship they necessarily maintain with precursor poets.
First published: 1973
- Category
- Literary Criticism
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- Must-Read
- Author works
- 3
- Language
- eng
