The poets and prose-writers of Greece and Rome were acutely
conscious of their literary heritage. They expressed this
consciousness in the regularity with which, in their writings, they
imitated and alluded to the great authors who had preceded them.
Such imitation was generally not regarded as plagiarism but as
essential to the creation of a new literary work: imitating one's
predecessors was in no way incompatible with originality or
progress. These views were not peculiar to the writers of Greece
and Rome but were adopted by many others who have written in the
classical tradition right up to modern times. Creative Imitation
and Latin Literature is an exploration of this concept of imitatio.
The contributors analyze selected passages from various authors -
Greek, Latin and English - in order to demonstrate both how Latin
authors created new works of art by imitating earlier passages of
literature (sometimes resorting even to self-imitation) and how
English poets accomplished the same task by imitating passages of
Latin literature.
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