Article: Homage to Robert Frost.

Influence is always a popular topic among literary critics, who love to trace the effect one writer has had on another. Long before academia admitted literature written in modern languages to the curriculum, Greek and Roman authors were studied as if all poetic forms and themes were passed from one generation to the next like the baton in a relay race. Variations on this notion have sprung up in every age; thus in postmodern times we have Harold Bloom's neo-Freudian "map of misprision," in which a poet unconsciously misreads his model in order to be able to say something new. Critics sometimes note that influence isn't always helpful or benign. On occasion, a dead ...

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