This man adapted his doctoral dissertation into a work in which he uses Buber's idea of "I and Thou" to describe the romantic poets relation with nature.
An attempt by this man to answer the question of how a poet comes to terms with all the great poetry was subtitled "A Theory of Poetry." This man adapted his doctoral dissertation into a work in which he uses Buber's idea of "I and Thou" to describe the romantic poets relation with nature. In addition to  The Anxiety of Influence and Shelley's Mythmaking, this man concluded in another work that all writers regardless of period must be judged in terms of William Shakespeare. For 10 points, name this Yale professor, a literary critic and author of The Western Canon.
An attempt by this man to answer the question of how a poet comes to terms with all the great poetry was subtitled "A Theory of Poetry."
Harold {Bloom}