The Figure of Echo

"The virtuosity of the scholarship, the critical resourcefulness, the acuteness of observation--all these add new vitality and new dimensions to the familiar subject of literary 'borrowing.' The old subject will not be the same again."--Arnold Stein "This is a brilliant inquiry into a subject that had never before been systematically investigated. Critics of poetry will be continually exhilarated by the possibilities opened up here."--Richard Poirier