week 5

1. “No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong
enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.”
Harold Bloom, Anxiety of Influence, 1972

2. Student Work

11. “If the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the
ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence
to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged.
Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be
inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour.”
T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1936