Chris Via’s Reviews > A Map of Misreading > Status Update

The readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Tennyson against the map of misprision are every bit as illuminating as that of Browning's poem. Now we're moving into Emerson, his precursors, and his ephebes to round this study out.

The chapter that applies Bloom’s map to Browning’s _Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came_ offers not only a practical use of influence-anxiety (something Bloom’s first book lacks) but an affirmation of why Bloom is heralded as a literary critic.

Bloom's command of literature from the Greeks, the Hebrews, on through British and American poets--not to mention all the secondary literature--is enviable.