ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Anxiety of Influence is a type of literary criticism established by Harold Bloom in 1973, in his book, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. It refers to the psychological struggle of aspiring authors to overcome the anxiety posed by the influence of their literary antecedents.

Detailed explanation-2: -This work was one of a number of his books-including Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), The American Religions (1992), Omens of Millennium (1996), Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005), and the novel The Flight to Lucifer (1979)-to deal with religious subjects.

Detailed explanation-3: -Professor Bloom was widely regarded as the most popular literary critic in America (an encomium he might have considered faint praise). Among his other best sellers were his magnum opus “The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, ” published in 1994, and “How to Read and Why” (2000).