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Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme

"Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate."

For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. The result is "a critical self-portrait," a sustained meditation on a life lived with and through the great works of the Western canon: Why has influence been my lifelong obsessive concern? Why have certain writers found me and not others? What is the end of a literary 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, 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, TheAnatomy of Influence follows the sublime works it studies, inspiring the reader with a sense of something ever more about to be.

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Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He lives in New Haven, CT.
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"Bloom thinks in the sweep of millennia, of intellectual patterns that unfold over centuries, of a vast and intricate labyrinth of interconnections between artists from Plato to Pater."--Michael Lindgren, Washington Post--Michael Lindgren "The Washington Post "

"He is, by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary presences of the last half-century"--Sam Tanenhaus, "International Herald Tribune"--Sam Tanenhaus"International Herald Tribune" (05/21/2011)

""The Anatomy of Influence" crackles with a rhetorical energy more suited to the public lecture theatre than the graduate seminar." --Jonathan Derbyshire, "New Statesman"--Jonathan Derbyshire"New Statesman" (05/23/2011)

.".... [A] treasure-trove of a book......This volume is a testimony to Bloom's assertion that he is still 'hopelessly passionate about the poets I loved best'. "--John Montague, "Irish Times"--John Montague"Irish Times" (08/06/2011)

"Bloom . . . has many arresting things to say and says them, often, with exquisite precision. He is, by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary presences of the last half-century--and one of the most protean, a singular breed of scholar-teacher-critic-prose poet-pamphleteer."--Sam Tanenhaus, "New York Times Book Review"--Sam Tanenhaus "The New York Times Book Review "

.".....the confessional and elegiac tonalities contained within Bloom's narrative stay long within the memory."--Dr Graham Allen, "Sunday Business Post (Ireland)"--Dr Graham Allen"Sunday Business Post (Ireland)" (07/17/2011)

"Reading Bloom read the great writers of the canon is an immense pleasure; reading Bloom read Bloom is a revelation. Like his ideal poets, Bloom brings us fire and light, apt tools for reading in the dark."--James Angelos, "Ugarte"--James Angelos "Ugarte "

Bloom "has been one of America''s most fascinating literary critics for nearly half a century. In his newest book, "The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life, "Bloom revisits the ideas that made him a star--and explains, in a straightforward way, why he''s spent his career trying 'to build a hedge around the secular Western canon.' "--Josh Rothman, Brainiac Blog, "Boston"" Globe"--Josh Rothman "Brainiac Blog, Boston Globe "

"Criticism, [Bloom] believes, should be 'personal and passionate' and, in fact, personal passion has always been his greatest strength... Like all Bloom's finest work [The Anatomy of Influence] is a genial amalgam in which insight is inseparable from extravagance."--Eric Ormsby, "Literary Review"--Eric Ormsby"Literary Review" (05/01/2011)

"Bloom reveals his own magisterial, sometimes mischievous self, in his meditations on the masters with whom he connects."--Iain Finlayson, "The Times"--Iain Finlayson"The Times" (05/14/2011)

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