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Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)

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The Covering Cherub Truths

The poet becomes aware that they are falling and bloom makes the distinction not that they become aware that they have fallen but they are in the process of falling. Bloom appropriates an entity from eze keel then appropriated by milton and william blake called the covering cherub truths destructive guardian angel. The modern poet is on the border of solipsism a view that the self is all that can be known, he says.

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