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Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)

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Bloom's Anxiety of Influence

In the final mature phase of a great poet we can almost believe that this poet had written their precursors characteristic work i love that and when great poets pass away when they die bloom likes to make an example out of words worth once they die. The strong dead return in poems is in our lives and they do not come back without darkening the living  the strongest poets in their final phases achieve a style that captures and oddly retains priority over their precursor so that the tyranny of time is almost overturned.

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