The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

by Harold Bloom

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195112214
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/10/1997
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.33(w) x 8.03(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

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.

Hometown:

New York, New York and New Haven, Connecticut

Date of Birth:

July 11, 1930

Date of Death:

October 14, 2019

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., Cornell University, 1951; Ph.D., Yale University, 1955

Editorial Reviews

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 the Publisher

Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between precursors and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts are strongly influenced by those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of criticism and poststructuralist literary theory. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.

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