This work builds on William Blake in its statement that "Every deep reader is an Idiot Questioner.
This work builds on William Blake in its statement that "Every deep reader is an Idiot Questioner. He asks, ‘Who wrote my poem?'". This work says that tautological criticism declares that a poem means itself, and reductive criticism declares a poem means something that is not a poem, but the true meaning of a poem is always another poem. Those ideas are re-iterated an "interchapter" titled "A Manifesto for (*) Antithetical Criticism". In this work, creative writing is describe as a form of disciplined perverseness rebelling against priority. This work includes askesis, tessera, and clinamen among its six revisionary ratios by which a strong poet may overcome his belatedness by misreading his predecessor. For 10 points, name this 1973 work of literary theory by Harold Bloom.
This work builds on William Blake in its statement that "Every deep reader is an Idiot Questioner.
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