Patricia Ismond, Abandoning Old Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry
Shakespeare’s genius is not original in story lines or in devices never seen before. He is creative in what he does with recognizable characters, inventive in what he does to make familiar ideas and techniques obtain fresh life. Regarding Ben Jonson’s literary borrowings, John Dryden observed in ‘A...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Shakespeare’s genius is not original in story lines or in devices never seen before. He is creative in what he does with recognizable characters, inventive in what he does to make familiar ideas and techniques obtain fresh life. Regarding Ben Jonson’s literary borrowings, John Dryden observed in ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’, Jonson ‘invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him’. Nevertheless, these obvious precedents have rarely discouraged c... |
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