Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-457) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Antiquity. From Mimesis to Imitatio: before and after Plato -- Building bodies: Imitatio and the Roman rhetorical tradition -- Dreamitation: Lucretius, Homer, Virgil. Part II. Early Modernity. Petrarchan transformations -- Adaptive imitation: Ciceronians, courtiers and Quixotes -- Formal imitation: the 'leaden-headed Germans' and their English heirs -- Ben Jonson: formal imitation. Part III. Milton and after. Milton: modelling the ancients -- Imitation in the age of literary property: Pope to Wordsworth -- The Promethean moment: Mary Shelley and Milton's monstrous progeny. Posthuman postscript. Poems more durable than brass bibliography.
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