The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom

The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom

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.

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*

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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ISBN 13	9780195112214
ISBN 10	0195112210
Title	The Anxiety of Influence
Author	Harold Bloom
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1997-07-03
Number of pages	208
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