{"id":2100,"date":"2009-09-09T00:27:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T04:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2009-09-09T00:27:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T04:27:30","slug":"frye-and-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/09\/frye-and-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye and Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2101\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/bloom-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"bloom\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/bloom-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/bloom.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In January 1969 Harold Bloom wrote to Frye to tell him about his developing theory of the anxiety of influence. Frye replied, \u201cYou don\u2019t say much about the general direction or scope of your book. If you mean influence in the more literal sense of the transmission of thought and imagery and the like from earlier poet to later one, I should think that this was simply something that happens, and might be a source either of anxiety or of release from it, depending on circumstances and temperament. But of course it is true that a great poet\u2019s maturity brings with it a growing sense of isolation, of the kind one feels in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalliope.org\/downloadvaerk.pl?fhandle=yeats&amp;vhandle=1938&amp;mode=Printer\" target=\"_blank\">Yeats\u2019 Last Poems<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wallace_Stevens\" target=\"_blank\">Stevens\u2019 The Rock<\/a>, and perhaps even <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Blake%27s_Illustrations_of_the_Book_of_Job\" target=\"_blank\">Blake\u2019s Job<\/a> series. I should very much like to hear more about the book and about your progress with it\u201d (letter of 23 January 1969). In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipkart.com\/anatomy-criticism-northrop-frye-harold\/0691069999-53w3f9hw7w\" target=\"_blank\">Foreword<\/a> to the fifteenth printing of <em>Anatomy of Criticism<\/em>, Bloom picks up part of what Frye had written thirty one years before: \u201cFrye disliked the idea of an anxiety of influence, and told me that whether a later writer experienced such an affect was due entirely to temperament and circumstance\u201d (vii).<\/p>\n<p>There is, of course, a difference between \u201cmight be a source either of anxiety or a release from it\u201d and \u201cwas due entirely.\u201d It might be that the real anxiety of influence was Bloom\u2019s anxiety about Frye\u2019s influence. What <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2009\/09\/08\/jonathan-allan-on-disciples\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Allan calls \u201cdistancing<\/a>\u201d could well be and example of the killing off of the critical father. Frye, at any rate, thought so. Some years later he wrote to Morton D. Paley, \u201cI hope it isn\u2019t too arrogant for me to think that I represent Bloom\u2019s chief anxiety of influence (letter of 17 January 1978).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In January 1969 Harold Bloom wrote to Frye to tell him about his developing theory of the anxiety of influence. Frye replied, \u201cYou don\u2019t say much about the general direction or scope of your book. 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