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Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)

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The Mystic Elements of Poetry

There is a real mystic element to poetry we read poetry and we can avert a crisis. Poems also return us to a primordial state a primal state the poet is a shaman, magic man or dancer of the divine. Bloom tells us that poetic thought is proleptic and the muse invoked under the name of memory is being implored to help the poet remember the future.

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