
Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)
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Bloom's Theory of Poetic Influence - The Kleinerman
The Kleinerman or the swerve is the central working concept of blooms theory of poetic influence. Bloom says no poem has sources and no poem merely alludes to another poems are written by men and not by anonymous splendors but at what price as readers are we to forfeit our own Kleinerman? The true history of modern poetry would be the accurate recording of these revisionary swerves, writes Tiseira Bloom.
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