'Anxiety of Influence' by Harold Bloom is the book in which the author presents the idea of poetic influence as an imperative in creating a poem. Poets stick to settled methods of writing, which appeared in the literary works of their predecessors. In another words, poets are rarely revolutionary when it comes to bringing new ideas of writing to literature and introducing new themes in their poems. What inspired a poet more than reading one great piece belonging to a literary canon? Writers don't
“Munro’s people are the immanences of our daily lives” (Bloom 2). This quotation, written by Harold Bloom, American literary critic, captures the essence of Alice Munro’s work splendidly. Munro does not aim to be a great literary hero, though she is, but rather to write about life as it is. Her work is naturalistic, one of the greatest appeals of her writing. Through that naturalism, Munro writes of ordinary sorrow, ordinary love, and ordinary passion. Nothing is meant to transcend the human existence
entire play - an ironic pattern of romantic expectations, momentary fulfilment, and ultimate loss' (Thompson 13). Works Cited and Consulted Bloom, Harold. Introduction. Tennessee Williams. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 1-8. King, Thomas L. "Irony and Distance in The Glass Menagerie." In Tennessee Williams. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 85-94. Levy, Eric P. "'Through Soundproof Glass': The Prison of Self Consciousness in The Glass Menagerie." Modern
Critical Interpretations, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987) 43. For further discussion on renaissance gender performance and identity politics among Shakespeare's cross-dressed heroines, see Michael Shapiro's Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: The University of MIchigan Press, 1994). 6- Elliot Krieger, "Malvolio and Class Ideology in Twelfth Night," Modern Critical Interpretation, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea HousePublishers
“She would have been a good woman if it had been someone there to shoot her for every minute of her life.” Flannery O’Connor’s depiction of Christian faith can be seen in almost all of her works. Inevitably, the plots in all of O’Connor’s stories end with a shocking conclusion, and this leaves the reader with freedom to interpret the central idea. From the endless list of themes that O’Connor embeds into her stories, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is largely influenced by the idea of divine grace,
Tennessee Williams. By Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 9-11. Print. McLeod, Saul. "Id Ego and Superego." Simply Psychology. Simply Psychology, 2008. Web. 26 Jan. 2014. O'Connor, Jacqueline. "Babbling Lunatics: Language and Madness." Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Tennessee Williams. By Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase, 2007. 11-26. Print. Riddel, Joseph N. "A Streetcar Named Desire-Nietzche Descending." Modern Critical Views Tennessee Williams. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House
Richard III.” Shakespeare’s Histories (Bloom’s Major Dramatists). Ed. Harold Bloom, Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2000. 24-28. Pearlman, E. “The Invention of Richard Gloucester.” Shakespeare’s Histories (Bloom’s Major Dramatists). Ed. Harold Bloom, Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2000. 28-30. Schlegel, August Wilhelm. “Lectures of Dramatic Art and Literature.” Shakespeare’s Histories (Bloom’s Major Dramatists). Ed. Harold Bloom, Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2000. 19-21. Shakespeare, William. King
"A Cradle Song" S. Foster Damon's 1947 reading of "A Cradle Song" indicates that most early critics accepted Isaac Watts' Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber as the model for Blake's poem. However, Damon claims that "There is no more resemblance [between the two works]than there must be between any two cradle-songs. He also claims that the designs of the second plate have a "Raphaelesque hardness, which is in this day not pleasant." Vivian de Sola Pinto acknowledges the connections between
amount of change within the world as he was growing up. His experiences are reflected significantly within his works of literature. More specifically, I believe the drastic growth towards our modern society is directly reflected in “The Forge”. Harold Bloom, a professional American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, wrote about Seamus Heaney’s life in the following quotation, “"The most important Irish poet since Yeats"—so has Seamus Heaney been described by the
Death of a Salesman." In Bloom, Harold, ed. The American Dream, Bloom 's Literary Themes. New York: Chelsea Publishing House, 2009. Bloom 's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 30 Nov. 2015 Thompson, Terry W. "The Ironic Hercules Reference in Death of a Salesman." English Language Notes 40, no. 4 (June 2003): 73–77. Quoted as "Biff as the Hercules of Brooklyn" in Harold Bloom, ed. Death of a Salesman, New Edition, Bloom 's Guides. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2010. Bloom 's
people seem doomed to their fates: to run away, to live in the past, or to exist continually in a intangible world. Works Cited and Consulted Bloom, Harold. Introduction. Tennessee Williams. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 1-8. King, Thomas L. "Irony and Distance in The Glass Menagerie." In Tennessee Williams. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 85-94. Levy, Eric P. "'Through Soundproof Glass': The Prison of Self Consciousness in The Glass Menagerie." Modern
Bartels, Emily C. "Strategies of submission: Desdemona, the Duchess, and the assertion of desire" Studies of English Literature Spring 1996: (Online) accessed. April 27 1999 http://www. Galileo pechnet.edu Bloom, Harold. "Introduction" Modern Critical Interpretations, Othello Ed. Harold Bloom, Pub. Chelsea House New Haven CT 1987. Jones, Eldred. "Othello- An Interpretation" Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthelemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994. Neely, Carol. "Women
In Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom evaluates the character, writing: Lear’s utterances establish a standard of measurement that no other fictive personage can approach, the limits of human capacity for profound affect are consistently transcended by Lear. To feel what Lear suffers strains us as only our own greatest anguishes have hurt us; the terrible intimacy that Lear insists upon is virtually unbearable. (Bloom 513) Mr. Bloom asserts, that Lear reckons with love, and its
incidents he encounters. Without the restraints of society, temptation exists to give into pri... ... middle of paper ... ...m. (pp.239-242). New York, NY: Norton & Company. Henrickson, Bruce. (1978). Heart of Darkness and the Gnostic Myth. In Harold Bloom (Ed.) Modern Critical Interpretations. (pp. 45-55). New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers. Insane [Def. 1]. (n.d.). In Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved December 30, 2013, from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/insane
"Coriolanus and His Mother" by Rufus Putney. From Twentieth Century Interpretations of Coriolanus ed. James E. Phillips. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc. 1970) 104-105 A.C. Bradley, Coriolanus. (The Folcroft Press, 1912) 11-12. Harold Bloom, The Invention of the Human. (New York: Penguin Putnam Inc. 1998) 577-587
such an amazing writer. Even after so many years we are still admiring his work (Nurmi, Martin) Works Cited Bloom, Harold. "Critical View on "The Mental Traveller" by Northrop Frye." William Blake. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2003. 66-67. Print. Bloom, Harold. ""The Mental Traveller" Standing Alone." William Blake. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2003. 74-77. Print. Bloom, Harold. "The Mental Traveller." William Blake. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2003. 63-65. Print. Nurmi, Martin K. "Joy,
The Human Abstract "The Human Abstract" has not received much critical attention on its own. Of the critical interpretations that do exist, many approach the poem by examining its various manifestations in Blake's manuscripts, reading it against "A Divine Image," a poem w hich was never finally published by Blake, or comparing it to its Innocence counterpart, "The Divine Image." Most critics seem to agree that "The Human Abstract" represents a philosophical turning point in The Songs of Innocence
astonishingly vivid. The beast "burning bright" with "fire" indicates ... ... middle of paper ... ...d the Age of Revolution. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965. Erdman, David V. "Blake: The Historical Approach." William Blake. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. Miner, Paul. "’The Tyger’: Genesis & Evolution in the Poetry of William Blake." Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Ed. Jane Kelly Kosek. Vol. 12. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1995. 59-64. Natoli, Joseph.
story. For this reason, along with numerous others, Christmas was lynched at the conclusion of this novel. William Faulkner carefully integrates several different ideas that can lead to a man’s solitude. According to the book William Faulkner by Harold Bloom, “…his fiction is steeped in the tones and emotions of the Deep South” (11). This holds true for Light in August since there is plenty of racism and hatred towards blacks. In William Faulkner’s novel, Light in August, Joe Christmas’s identity,
Nelson). Eventually these poems helped Angelou to find the courage to speak again. Maya Angelou’s poetry contains bold messages and gives a voice to individuals who, at times, do not have the courage or ability to speak for themselves. As critic Harold Bloom aptly comments, Angelou’s literary techniques “enhance the capacity of her poetry to heal, liberate, and empower her readers” (Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Maya Angelou 130). This idea of empowerment is especially evident in Angelou’s three