Accessing a power or "daimon" that supposedly predates the precursor, bypassing them entirely.
Writers must intentionally "misread" their idols to create space for their own work. Harold Bloom - The Anxiety of Influence. A Theo...
Writing is a competitive struggle for imaginative survival. Accessing a power or "daimon" that supposedly predates
Influence is not a gift; it is a burden that threatens a writer's creative identity. 🛠️ The Six Revisionary Ratios "weak" poets merely imitate them.
Bloom argues that "great" writing is born from a writer's fear that they have nothing original to say. This creates a "Freudian" struggle between the (the established master) and the Ephebe (the new poet).
Total originality is a myth; all poems are "inter-poems" written in response to others.
"Strong" poets successfully misread their predecessors; "weak" poets merely imitate them.