The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition
by: Bloom, Harold

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacker with minor edgewear, 352 pages. Bloom provides both an advanced guide to English and American Romanticism with its Victorian and Modern continuators, and an introduction to a new development in literary criticism that should increase the reader's grasp of the problematic but crucial relationship between the working poet and his poetic tradition. Mr. Bloom's judgment finds most significant cases of poetic influence to be examples of what he calls "a saving misprision, in which later poets overcome the anxieties induced by the glory of their precursors by creatively misinterpreting those great originals." Consequently, poets and poems are read against one another to locate the personal misinterpretations, the swerves that both separate and inescapably connect them. Among the poets studied are Blake, Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Emerson, Whitman, Yeats, Lawrence, Stevens, and others. Clean copy.