Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-08-16
THE GREAT WRITERS,
Ideas and inspiration Taken by
One Author From Another.
BUT GENIUS BORROWS MODIFY
The Crude Oct Refined end the Raw
Material Fashioned Into . Thing Of
Beauty-Snakespsar 40 . Most Bril-
liant Example.


our great writer's are not great rob
b.rs. Literature Is not Il repository OF
stolen .nAlS What seem iik" steal
ing~ toy the steel pen arr rather III"
output "f the lai,ihary or 81 rr'->'i' OF
til. mint or h',trr still. IL" borrow
Inys from a bank repaid with iil,rr"st.
1T IL WONDERFUL" says 'hari"'
Itcohe. ''ho" genus can lnrr"W. Nv
turrituu. iruia.h> tnI'r al, ~
Holmes. lives 10y borrow iG and len'l.
ing" and. he adds. ~ r'ssi Image Is
Liz" "A diamond which, ma! IT, st
hundred times in a. many generations
AMI gain n'v beauties with every
change" This Is not a question M
originality "Ih" Lighting II rh"''c
| 1T n nciyhln-'S tire" observes Dean
Swift. ",laS not affect our property W
] the wick AMI fame" 'a:e,lius hor-
r,ws nul,i,." TM. transformer Is
often a tran>lnu,a,i"n. For brass. the
borrower brings gold. anl for iron.
| silver. aud for wuSl. brass. and Tor
| stones. iron. The crude ore ~ refined
! and the raw material fashioned into
| n thing " beauty
II has been In,inte.l ont 10y Mr.. Huth
| In his "I.ifc ~ Buckle" that there Is
kind Of nsiigr.e In literature. Dante
avows his Indebtedness to Virgil. ~
| the latter himself was under obliS''-
tions to Homer.
| Ariosto owes much to Virgil. and
S,mnscr l,Orrows Frequently from
.Ariosto. Sponsors "F'acric Quc"ne"
/ n
laud." ami this to- Bernaris isle Of
Man." and this In turn to I%f"'s
"RobinsOn triisOe" and Bunyans
"Ii,yrims Progress" all like so man!
blossoms rising from tn" one stem.
Shakespeare has bccn called 1.-The
srcat warwickshire thief" sO inveter.
nte IL his borrowing habit. lie inward
literature like a Napoleon AMI brought
back the rarcst art treasures To enrich
aud tcautify his verse. One II sur
rrise,i to- learn that our draInatist has
no original plots. that he has given to
roetry iiu new rhythm or stanza and
That he ran not only In the old road
but In the old ruts." Ills "As You
Like II" Is taken from an old romance.
The characters of his Julius Caesar
arr old Romans taken frOm PIutarch.
But what borrowing! Dry ZONES are
turned into living men. The common.
est materials are taken into the lam
hrut flame Of his genius and transmit.
Ell into airy beauty.
Milton. too. II q free borrower II u
this fact. indeed. that makes his verss
so rich In armed reminiscence and nc
/ -. nHip
gold" lie owes much to Shakespeare
Some critics think Millions Eve II Dor
rowe,i from Shakespeare Miranda. IL
the Tanning OF the Shrew" occurs thu
! tine:
A. morning roses newly washed In dew.
Willie Milton In "L'Allegro" speak
, If
Fresh blown roses washed In dew.
Milton Is n very mine to many. Top
Is his debtor. Millions Smoky HOE
ccrcss''-a woman 20 the waist ant
fair. but "cndln: foul In many . scal!
fold vnlumin"us and vast"-is made 4
say. They call me sin and for siSl
Irortentous hold me: hut. famiiin
grown. ! pleased and with attractive
yraccs won the innst averse." Pop
sings
Vice IL n r,o's',- - 80 frieh'ful mien
As 80 u" ,t.l ,".','s vat I" t." seen.
But seen too Of. ftni.'.r with her race.
We FIRST .niuro. then pity. then. embrace
Tennysou must have had in min'
: Millions
, Hanging IN a gold, chain
. This pendent world