According to Harold Bloom’s theory of poetic influence, poets inevitably “misread” their precursors; “poetic misprision,” his term for this kind of creative misreading, is the first step in the “belated” poet’s assertion of originality. Bloom believes that a similar process occurs when critic confronts text — interpretation is another form of more or less creative misreading. He tells his students, “There is no method except yourself.”
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