Great Writers Inspire Great Writing

Alex Pryce considers how writers are readers, influenced and inspired by the works of other writers.

Taking as a starting point the literary afterlife of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and the influence of Romantic John Keats on the First World War Poet Wilfred Owen, Alex discusses how writers are challenged by precursory writers, and introduces some theories of influence from T.S. Eliot and Harold Bloom.

Date Published: 19 September 2012
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Contributors: Alex Pryce
In Collection(s): Charlotte Brontë, What is Literature, and Why Does It Matter?
Keywords: inspiration, Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot, tradition, anxiety of influence, Influence, Virginia Woolf, james joyce, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, john Keats, Wilfred Owen, #greatwriters
Cite: Great Writers Inspire Great Writing by Charlotte Brontë at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/great-writers-inspire-great-writing. Published on 19 September 2012. Accessed on 14 May 2026.
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