The Greatest Poets After Shakespeare

bloom quotes on dre mal roe who says that every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but while only actual denizens are a few mighty antagonistic ghosts so one's aesthetic development the formula runs like this first pastiche then style you first start getting your creative footing exploring what your voice might be by mashing together those poets that have influenced you and therefore threatened your sense of self now for Shakespeare we can see that his influences which he transcended fully that he consecrated consumed and then became his own influence to the point where his later plays are a swerving or a completion of his earlier self rather than another poet.