all of the greatest literary art is networked together: "If you carry the major British and American poets around with you by internalization," he explains, "after some years their complex relations to one another begin to form enigmatic patterns." Those patterns of influence keep looping back to the greatest writers, like Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, and Tolstoy. Literary influence, Bloom says, is like a "labyrinth" built up from moments of genuine inspiration, when great literary minds encounter one another.from The Boston Globe: Harold Bloom on the Canon and Creativity
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