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Great Borrowing in Literature Across the Ages
A discussion on how major writers including Dante, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, Kipling, Byron, Coleridge and others borrowed from predecessors and contemporaries. The piece cites examples from Virgil to Ariosto, and notes Shakespeare’s lack of original plots while praising his transformation of common material into art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Reade
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dean Swift
Mr. Huth
Buckle
Dante
Virgil
Homer
Ariosto
Spenser
aAriesto
Fletcher
Purple Island
Bernard
Isle of Man
Defoe
Bunyan
Shakespeare
Warwickshire
Julius Caesar
Plutarch
Milton
Miranda
Pepe
Tennyson
Mini Milton
Thomas Flatman
Byron
Aeschylus
Coleridge
Mont Blanc
Friedrich Brown
Bishop Ken
Thomas Browne
God
Rudyard Kipling