
Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)
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The Poetry of Being Belated by Harald Bloom
Harald bloom was not a poet he was a critic and that is not to denigrate him but to elevate him. We read the same promethean questing for fire in his criticism that bloom himself read in the poets that he was infatuated with. As belated poets as newcomers we find our central problem to be repetition so much has already been done, writes David Lindsey.
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