Eliot’s insistence on "impersonality" was a defensive reaction (Kenosis) against the Romantic focus on the self.
Writers must intentionally "misread" their idols to create space for their own work. Harold Bloom - The Anxiety of Influence. A Theo...
Bloom outlines six specific ways (or "ratios") that a new poet twists the work of a predecessor to make it their own: Harold Bloom - The Anxiety of Influence. A Theo...