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Perhaps Bloom’s most personal work, this is a fitting last testament to one of America’s leading twentieth-century literary minds.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn extraordinary testimony to a long life spent in the company of poetry and an affecting last declaration of [Bloom's] passionate and deeply unfashionable faith in the capacity of the imagination to make the world feel habitable\u003c\/strong\u003e — Seamus Perry, \u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReading, this stirring collection testifies, ‘helps in staying alive.’\u003c\/strong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death—completed weeks before Harold Bloom died—shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called “a universe of death.” Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of life’s troubles, taking readers on a grand tour of the poetic voices that have haunted him through a lifetime of reading. \u003cem\u003eHigh literature\u003c\/em\u003e, he writes, \u003cem\u003eis a saving lie against time, loss of individuality, premature death.\u003c\/em\u003e In passages of breathtaking intimacy, we see him awake late at night, reciting lines from Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Blake, Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Jay Wright, and many others. He feels himself “edged by nothingness,” uncomprehending, but still sustained by reading. 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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: \u003cem\u003eWhy has influence been my lifelong obsessive concern? Why have certain writers found me and not others? What is the end of a literary life?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Anatomy of Influence\u003c\/em\u003e adapts Bloom's classic work \u003cem\u003eThe Anxiety of Influence\u003c\/em\u003e to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters. 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