about literary scholarship and the practice of criticism, about the last 50 years, is the fact that it keeps forgetting what is really the burden of the aesthetic. Talking about a poem in terms of historical factors, in terms of even biographical factors, in terms of national tendencies, but in the end what makes it a poem rather than something else in the same way, the poet in a poet, that element in Shakespeare, Whitman, Goethe which finally determines that she or he is a poet and not some other kind of a writer. But it is very difficult to find.from Sunday's Zaman: Harold Bloom: Influence is just another word for influence
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