The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom

The ideal reader of Bloom is a kind of reader that is very very rare, perhaps doesn't even exist apart from Bloom himself. One needs to know the environment in which Harold Bloom was writing and how he was somewhat foreshadowing but also picking up on something that was already happening. It's very very difficult to unpick this early work of Harold Bloom's. He deploys terminology from some of the most disparate, esoteric realms,. Gnosticism, Mosaic making, Lucretius' writings on atoms and more.