“s request, and that he did not stand by it. Work on Shakespeare Bloom had a deep appreciation for William Shakespeare, considering him the supreme center of the Western canon. The first edition of The Anxiety of Influence almost completely avoided Shakespeare, whom Bloom then considered barely touched by the psychological drama of anxiety. The second edition, published in 1997, added a long preface that mostly expounded Shakespeare”
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