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Borrowed Genius Across Literature and Shakespeare
A critical meditation on how great writers borrow ideas and motifs from predecessors and successors. It traces Shakespeare’s endless import from earlier works, Milton’s debt to Shakespeare, and parallels for Pope, Tennyson, Byron, Coleridge, and Kipling, highlighting a shared seam of influence.
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Charles Reade
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dean Swift
Mr. Huth
Buckle
Dante
Virgil
Homer
Ariosto
Spenser
Fletcher
Purple Island
Bernard
Isle of Man
Defoe
Bunyan
Shakespeare
Warwickshire
Julius Caesar
Plutarch
Milton
Eve
Miranda
Tennyson
Pope
Thomas Flatman
Byron
Aeschyhis
Coleridge
Mont Blanc
Friedrich Brown
Bishop Ken
Sir Thomas Browne
Collown
God
Rudyard Kipling
S. B. Dunn
Circle Magazine