Modern authors are stylistically influenced by their contemporaries rather than writers from the 18th and 19th centuries, according to word-frequency study of classic literature Harold Bloom famously dubbed it the and #34;anxiety of influence and #34; (paywall) : the effect which the literary canon has on writers. Less today than it did in the past, according to a mathematical study which analysed thousands of …
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