ABSTRACTS.

The article presents abstracts of some papers on poets. One of the paper entitled, "Pope and Plagiarism," by Richard Terry, discusses English poet Alexander Pope's general sensitivity to the ethics of literary borrowing and the numerous accusations of plagiarism that were made against him in his lifetime. It also considers Pope's use of the plagiarism allegation as part of his own satiric practice. Finally, it explore the way that critical writing in the later eighteenth century, especially in the aftermath of Joseph Warton's influential critique, comes to define the nature of Pope's achievement in terms of an inherently plagiaristic aesthetic. Another paper entitled, "T. S. Eliot on the Limits of Criticism: The Anomalous 'Experiment' of 1929," by Ashley Marshall, argues that Eliot's essays represent a major departure from his usual conflicted position in the 1920s and 1930s about the objects of criticism. He seems quickly to have come to regard the essay as a misconceived failure. Emphasis has been laid upon the productivity of that failure in propelling him towards a revised and nuanced understanding of criticism and of his place in tradition.