This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Borrowing in Literature A Tradition of Influence and Imitation
An examination of how great writers rely on earlier works and authors for ideas, imagery, and plots. The piece cites Shakespeare as a prolific borrower, notes Milton Pope Tennyson and Kipling drawing on predecessors, and discusses the idea that literature evolves through transmutation rather than pure originality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Reade
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dean Swift
Mr. Huth
Buckle
Dante
Virgil
Homer
Ariosto
Spenser
Julius Caesar
Plutarch
Milton
Shakespeare
Miranda
Tennyson
Pope
Thomas Flatman
Byron
Aeschylus
Coleridge
Mont Blanc
Friedrich Brown
Bishop Ken
Sir Thomas Browne
God
Rudyard Kipling