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The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life
Harold Bloom
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life
Harold Bloom
Featuring extended analyses of the author's most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, this title adapts his classic work "The Anxiety of Influence" to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters.
368 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) | 
| Released | April 17, 2012 | 
| ISBN13 | 9780300181449 | 
| Publishers | Yale University Press | 
| Pages | 368 | 
| Dimensions | 148 × 227 × 23 mm · 524 g | 
| Language | English | 
                    
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