The Anxiety of Influence

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The Anxiety of Influence is a seminal work of literary criticism by Harold Bloom that explores how poets are shaped and constrained by the powerful influence of their predecessors.

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instanceOf book
work of literary criticism
academicDiscipline comparative literature
literary studies
author Harold Bloom
centralFigure the strong poet
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describedAs seminal work of literary criticism
explores constraints imposed by literary tradition
how poets are shaped by predecessors
psychological struggle of poets with influence
followedBy A Map of Misreading
genre literary criticism
hasEdition second edition with new preface
hasPart apophrades
askesis
clinamen
daemonization
kenosis
tessera
influenced deconstruction-era criticism
literary theory
poetics
studies of intertextuality
influencedBy Friedrich Nietzsche
Northrop Frye
Romantic poets
Sigmund Freud
language English
mainSubject Romantic poetry
creative anxiety
influence in literature
intertextuality
literary tradition
poetic originality
poetry
precursor poets
notableIdea creative misprision
poetic creation as agon with predecessors
strong poets misread their precursors
proposesConcept anxiety of influence
revisionary ratios
publicationDate 1973
publisher Oxford University Press
setInPeriod Romanticism
surface form: Romanticism (as primary poetic focus)
targetAudience scholars of literature
students of poetry

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