Luc Tuymans. Nape.
Caspar David-Friedrich. Wanderer Above the Sea of Mist."[In the Anxiety of Influence Harold] Bloom's central thesis is that poets are hindered in their creative process by the ambiguous relationship they necessarily maintained with precursor poets. While admitting the influence of extraliterary experience on every poet, he argues that "the poet in a poet" is inspired to write by reading another poet's poetry and will tend to produce work that is derivative of existing poetry..."*
