Ebook: The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life

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, this text adapts Bloom's classic work 'The Anxiety of Influence' shows us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters.