On Fri, 9 May 1997, Nick Kearney wrote:
> Keston wrote:
> what's gained by setting a high value by someone's work is a sense of
> relatedness, which becomes an
> investment when the reader is also a writer
> the reverse is also true!!
> NICK
>
> - absolutely. But the kind of investment is different; to imagine your
own work to be supercessive is different from tending to emulation, if
only by degrees of honesty: to emulate greatness is still to wish to
supercede it, but the wish is cloaked (and in part stifled) by admiration.
Thomas Gray, I think, is the best example (eg Agrippina & Racine, Hymn to
Ignorance & Pope etc).
Keston
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