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Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)

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The Second Revisionary Ratio Is Tiseira

Tiseira is completion and antithesis Bloom takes this word which is from the realm of mosaic making but he wants to take it from the ancient mystery cult dramas where Tiseira meant a token of recognition. A poet completes his precursor by so reading the parent poem as to retain its terms but to mean them in another sense as though the precursor had failed to go far enough if you read a particular poet deeply enough consistently enough you'll find that they have their own terms  but very often these terms have been absorbed from their aesthetic precursors with Tiseira the new budding poet picks up these terms from their precursor and completes them by giving them a new meaning towards like certain and sl

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