The Anxiety of Influence :A Theory of Poetry

3.77 ( 1,637 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Anxiety of Influence

The Anxiety of Influence :A Theory of Poetry

(Author)
3.77 (1,637 Ratings by Goodreads)
paperback
Published: 3 July, 1997
Standard worldwide delivery by Wed, July 15 - Mon, July 20
Order within 0
Condition: NEW
$28.21
Price includes shipping
Available 3 in stock
- +
FREE Returns within 30 days

Description

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.
See more

More Details

Type Book
ISBN13 9780195112214
ISBN10 0195112210
Number Of Pages 208
Item Weight 186 g
Product Dimensions 135 x 204 x 11 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press Inc
Format paperback
Edition 2nd Revised edition
See More +

Media 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 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*

Show more

GoodReads Reviews

Author's Bio

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.

Show more