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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- de Man, P., & Bloom, H.
- Venue
- Comparative Literature
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1974
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 269
- ISSN
- 0010-4124 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1993701089
- Cited by
- 2,673
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 37.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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