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UtopianLibrary t1_j6ke6t9 wrote

Reply to comment by Umbrella_Viking in The letters of T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale that were kept sealed from 1956 to 2020 have been released for free online by RunDNA

Yes, but he was one of the people who defined modernism and he’s T.S. Eliot.

Memory all alone in the moonlight.

Dude was hilarious. Anyway, there was actually a lot of debate about using others’ works without crediting them back then. These writers intended it to be more of an homage than straight up plagiarism.

For example, Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror is basically The Tempest fanfiction, but it’s brilliant for so many reasons that makes it literary art on its own. Allusions to other work was a trademark of modernism. Commenting on tropes and breaking the fourth wall is when modernism starts to fade and post-modernism becomes in vogue.

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I_like_red_shoes t1_j6kvq0i wrote

Like sampling.

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UtopianLibrary t1_j6lb86n wrote

Yeah, dude. It’s like saying any music artist who ever used sampling is a plagiarist. Back then, it was different. You were basically flexing if you knew about this obscure Etruscan myth and were adding the translation or references into your poem.

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i_Got_Rocks t1_j6ls6u8 wrote

Tarantino does this in film and people hail him as a god.

Like, no, he just watches a lot of movies.

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