The Anxiety of Influence
A Theory of Poetry
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:3rd Jul '97
£17.49
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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.
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*
ISBN: 9780195112214
Dimensions: 135mm x 204mm x 11mm
Weight: unknown
208 pages
2nd Revised edition