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The article offers observations on the possible sources for the last few lines of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Coeli Enarrant." It discusses Coleridge's use of Richard Crashaw's hymn "In the Glorious Epiphany of our Lord God" as a source for the image of the eclipsed sun. It explores Coleridge's composition of his poem in imitation of "Du Bartas His Devine Weekes and Workes."

This article unravels an apparent paradox: an imitation of John Pomfret's 1699 poem of the same title, Leigh Hunt's 1823 “The Choice” appears in a reformist journal but embodies a retirement poem, the retirement mode typically viewed as quietist or reactionary in its politics. Grasping Hunt's goals in turning to the retirement mode requires recognizing the upsurge of lower-middle-class interest in such poetry after 1790, an increase reflecting a new concept of retirement among city-bound readers barred from the rural estates celebrated in such poems: retirement as the reading or writing of retirement poetry. Once retirement poetry internalized the ideal-real contrasts central to its urban, middle-class reception, such verse acquired a reformist function that attracted Hunt. Such poems highlighted the trammels of Cockney life and, through their foregrounding of the unreality of rural retirement, invited utopian speculation. The association of Hunt's poem with Pomfret also amplified its reformist resonances: not only a favorite of middle-class professionals reading to escape daily cares, Pomfret's ubiquity in canon-making anthologies, in an era when taste and politics were fused, represented a challenge to elite literary and political judgment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents an analysis of the poetic language used by the 20th-century American poet W. H. Auden, alluding to the work and style of the earlier Irish writer William Butler Yeats. Auden's poem "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" is particularly analyzed for its imitation of Yeats' style. Themes and elements of Auden's poem are then linked to Yeats' poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion."

This article explores poetic practices of copying and recycling that follow a "cannibalistic" logic. Taking a cue from theories of literary relationality elaborated by Edward Said, Haroldo De Campos, Oswald De Andrade, Édouard Glissant, Jorge Luis Borges, and Marcus Boon, I examine innovations in the work of poets such as Mónica de la Torre, Timothy Donnelly, Terrance Hayes, Mark McMorris, Haryette Mullen, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Wendy Walker. While it is unusual to read North American poetry in connection with postcolonial and Latin American literary theory, my article's method enacts the same kind of poetic circuit that I am interested in exploring. Seeking to build on recent comparative approaches to twentieth-century poetry I argue that tracing dialogues and conceptual affinities across linguistic and regional boundaries is crucial for understanding the development of experimental poetics in the American Hemisphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the use of the Petrarchan motif of the ‘generative footsteps’—the magical ability of the beloved to make flowers bloom wherever she steps—in three sonnets by the Golden-Age Spanish poet Luis de Góngora: ‘Al tramontar del sol, la ninfa mía’ (1582), ‘Tres veces de Aquilón el soplo airado’ (1582) and ‘Los blancos lilios que de ciento en ciento’ (1609). Through close readings, it examines how the image serves as a metatextual symbol in the three poems. Where the motif often functions in Petrarch to evoke an ideal of spontaneous and unmediated creation, Góngora's sonnets reflect upon imitation and influence, drawing attention to the insuperable gap between a poem and its source, arguing for the superiority of imitation over mimesis and representing literature as an endless accumulation of glosses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents a criticism of the poem "Imitación de Byron" by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. The author considers the distinction between translation and imitation in literature and discusses how Bécquer's poem relates to the poem "I saw thee weep" by 19th century poet Lord Byron and to a poem by 9th century Arab poet Ibn Rumi.

The article offers criticism on the poetry of Robert Penn Warren, focusing on the poem "Red-Tail Hawk and Pyre of Youth." The author looks at the development of romantic theories in poetry, the significance of destruction in reliving the past, and the correlation between imitation and originality. The article also discusses romantic aesthetic philosophy and views on individuality and knowledge.

The article offers criticism on the poem "Anniversaries" by the English poet and satirist John Donne. The author looks at the significance of the characters in the poem, the description of the textual structure of the poem, and the nature and function of poetry. The article also discusses elements of art and imitation in the poetry.

The article critiques poet Ben Jonson's 17th-century poem "Ode to Sir William Sydney, on His Birth-day" as an early example of the formal ode in English literature. It addresses how Jonson conforms to the austere ethos of the household of Sir Robert Sidney, the poem's maintenance of a delicate decorum, and the demonstration of Jonson's control of imitation and allusion.

The article critiques the poem “On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet,” by Samuel Johnson, particularly focusing on Johnson’s interest in the elegiac mode of poetry. It addresses the conception of elegiac poetry, explores the attitude toward poetic imitation, and notes the principles that shape Johnson’s epitaphs and elegies.

A review of the book "Metamimesis: Imitation in Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' and Early German Romanticism," by Mattias Pirholt, is presented.

The article presents poetry criticism of the epic poems "The Odyssey" by Homer and "The Aeneid" by Virgil. The author looks at the references to the mythic character Tithonos in both of the classic epic poems and suggests that Virgil's inclusion of the Tithonos myth in "The Aeneid" is an example of his creative imitation of Homer's work. Further, the author suggests that by portraying Tithonos as a victim of passionate love Virgil is responding to and quietly correcting Homer.

The article reviews the book "Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless," by Steve Salerno.

Reviews the book 'Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici and its Imitations,' by Daniela Havenstein.

Reviews the book 'The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940,' by Miles Orvell.

The article presents an analysis of the poem 'The Translation of Raimundo Luz: My Imitation,' by Scott Cairns. Background of Raimundo Luz, the comic character created by Cairns in the poem is presented, and the imitation of Christ as depicted in the poem is commented on along with the use of varied voices by the poet.