Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence, an insightful study of Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist, has sold over 17,000 copies in paperback since 1984 and remains a central work of criticism for students of literature. For the second edition, Bloom offers a new introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years.
| ISBN: | 9780195112214 |
| Publication date: | 3rd July 1997 |
| Author: | Harold Bloom |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 157 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: poetry and poets |