Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:37:19 -0600
From: tomdill-AT-wc.stephens.edu (TOM DILLINGHAM)
Subject: Re: Strong Poets


The phrase "strong poet" is indigenous to the work of Harold Bloom,
with his emphasis on the anxiety of "influence" (a more complex 
notion than common usage suggests).  I have never seen Bloom refer
to Foucault in that way, and given his hostility to poststructuralist
criticism, I would be surprised if he used the phrase in a positive 
way in such a reference.  On the other hand, I think a good case
could be made, using Bloom's terminology and theory, that Foucault
could properly be called a "strong poet" by stretching Bloom's 
usage only slightly.  I don't have time to make the case.
Tom Dillingham