In this reissue of a classic work in modern literary criticism, W. Jackson Bate presents a thoughtful and informed investigation of the responses of English wri

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This collection explores and clarifies two of the most contested ideas in literary theory - influence and intertextuality. The study of influence tends to centr

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

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