Abstract:
This chapter returns to Harold Bloom’s theory of the anxiety of influence, and
in particular his notion of apophrades. It does so in the context of a reading of P. B.
Shelley’s elegy to John Keats, Adonais. The chapter argues that Bloom’s version of
apophrades elides the uncanniness possessed by the original Greek concept; an
uncanniness exploited within Shelleys’ own poetry.