A map of misreading

In print since 1975, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion to Bloom´s other seminal volume, The Anxiety of Influence. This finely crafted work offers instruction in how to read a poem, using Bloom´s theory that patterns of imegery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against teh influence of precursor poems. Influence, as Bloom concieves it, means that there are no texts, but only relationships between texts. he discusses British an American poets including Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Withman. Dickinson, Stevens, Warren, ammons, and Ashbery.