This book argues for an extension of Bloom's 'diachronic rhetoric' towards a more historical conception of rhetoric in order to extend and amplify its crucial insights about the nature of rhetoric as it functions in both poetry and theories of poetry.
Since the 1960s, the literary critic Harold Bloom has been producing some of the most powerful criticism in the United States. This large body of work has, since the publication of The Anxiety of Influence in 1973, increasingly distanced itself from all critical vogues,...
This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in lite rature, linguistics and philosophy.