Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, language: English, abstract: Harold Bloom offers a theory of poetry "by the way of a description of poetic influence, or the story of intra-poetic relationship" (1973 5). The intra-poetic relationship contends with the darker truth that every poet qua poet suffers from the anxiety of influence; a "melancholy principle" that makes the poet wonder whether...