TY - BOOK ID - 1903641 TI - Creative imitation and Latin literature AU - West, David AU - Woodman, A J PY - 1979 SN - 0521226686 0521036399 0511659172 9780521036399 9780511659171 9780521226684 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Comparative literature KW - Classical Latin language KW - Latin literature KW - Littérature latine KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Imitation in literature KW - -871 KW - Roman literature KW - Classical literature KW - Classical philology KW - Latin philology KW - Quotation KW - Style, Literary KW - Mimesis in literature KW - Originality in literature KW - Plagiarism KW - Creative ability in art KW - Creative ability in literature KW - Art KW - Imagination KW - Inspiration KW - Literature KW - Creative ability KW - Originality KW - Latijnse literatuur KW - Rome KW - Civilization. KW - Imitation in literature. KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - 871 Latijnse literatuur KW - Littérature latine KW - 871 KW - Literary style KW - 871 Latin literature KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Latin literature - History and criticism KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History - To 1500 KW - Rome - Civilization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1903641 AB - The poets and prose-writers of Greece and Rome were acutely conscious of their literary heritage. They expressed this consciousness in the regularity with which, in their writings, they imitated and alluded to the great authors who had preceded them. Such imitation was generally not regarded as plagiarism but as essential to the creation of a new literary work: imitating one's predecessors was in no way incompatible with originality or progress. These views were not peculiar to the writers of Greece and Rome but were adopted by many others who have written in the 'classical tradition' right up to modern times. Creative Imitation and Latin Literature is an exploration of this concept of imitation. The contributors analyse selected passages from various authors - Greek, Latin and English - in order to demonstrate how Latin authors created new works of art by imitating earlier passages of literature. ER -