
Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)
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Freudian Family Romance
Bloom contends that all post enlightenment quest romances are quests to re-beget one's own self. The tessera represents the later poet's attempt to persuade himself and indeed us that the precursors word would be worn out if not redeemed as a newly fulfilled and enlarged word. British poets generally he has noticed, tend to swerve from their precursors so they execute a clineman.
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