The Anxiety of Influence

The American tradition is a condition that continues on you can see the forebearers the precursors more starkly and the American poets seem to believe that their precursors simply haven't gone far enough perhaps they haven't dared to go much further. Bloom reminds us that reductiveness is misprison or radical misinterpretation so basically you can often spot this when you see a poet seeming to correct the over idealistic nature of their precursor. The poem we see as the meaning of another poem is not chosen arbitrarily but the poem has to come from an indubitable precursor even if Bloom says the ifebe never read that poem. That's quite an exciting thing that we might see a