Ricks Christopher. Allusion to the Poets

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0199250324; ISBN13: 978-0199250325.Christopher Ricks is among the best known living critics. His third collection of essays, several newly written for this book, is strongly focused on the theme of how writers - especially but not exclusively poets--make use of other writers' work: from the subtle courtesies of different kinds of allusion to the extreme discourtesy of plagiarism.The poet as heirDryden and Pope
Burns
Wordsworth
Byron
Keats
TennysonIn the company of allusionPlagiarism
The Pursuit of 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