Table of Contents:
  • 1. The poet as heir. Dryden and Pope
  • Burns
  • Wordsworth
  • Byron
  • Keats
  • Tennyson
  • 2. In the company of allusion. Plagiarism
  • The pursuit of a metaphor
  • Loneliness and poetry
  • A.E. Housman and 'the colour of his hair'
  • Yvor Winters: allusion and pseudo-reference
  • David Ferry and the shades of the dead.