The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, 2nd EditionHarold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the individual artist. Although Bloom was never the leader of any critical camp, his argument that all literary texts are a response to those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of