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Jana Bouma
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Username: violamama

Post Number: 245
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 9:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

For anyone who has ever composed an eloquent stanza, only to wonder if MAYBE s/he's read those lines somewhere before, here's a rollicking discussion of the anxiety of influence, from Erik Cambpell at the Virginia Quarterly:

The Accidental Plagiarist

Jana
LJ Cohen
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Username: ljc

Post Number: 7236
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 7:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Jana,

This article is brilliant! Thanks for sharing the link.

best,
ljc
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LJCohen
Fred Longworth
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Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 1330
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 8:20 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I read this previously somewhere, don't recall where.

Fred
penny
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Username: funnyoldlady

Post Number: 3633
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 2:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Jana - well said - one for the saving. Thank you!

penny (-:=
Helen Margaret Rees
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Username: cinnamonbrandy

Post Number: 234
Registered: 09-2006
Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 4:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Ha! Beatle not writer. Ha!

Helen