Featuring extended analyses of
Bloom's most cherished poets—Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane—as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others,
The Anatomy of Influence adapts Bloom's classic work
The Anxiety of Influence to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters. Each chapter maps startling new literary connections that suddenly seem inevitable once Bloom has shown us how to listen and to read. A fierce and intimate appreciation of the art of literature on a scale that the author will not again attempt,
The Anatomy of Influence follows the sublime works it studies, inspiring the reader with a sense of something ever more about to be. [
Source]
