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In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response... read more
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- Milton: Add a description of this character.
- Stevens
- Whitman
- Childe Roland
- Emerson
- Browning
- Shelley
- Warren
- Ashbery
- Wordsworth
- Dickinson
- Spenser
- Derrida
- Virgil
- Blake
- Hardy
- Ferenczi
- Ammons
- Hartman
- Johnson
- Pynchon
- Adam
- Eliot
- Freud
- Ezra
- Fletcher
- Kierkegaard
- Williams
- Burke
- Paul De Man
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Strong poets are infrequent; our own century, in my judgment, shows only hardy and Stevens writing in English.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Harold Bloom (Author)
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- Dewey: 821.009
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Criticism
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