The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
Ideas and Inspiration Taken by
One Author From Another
BUT GENIUS BORROWs NOBLY

output or L4e AANluAAy uA AtterAN ~
the mint or, better still. the borrow.
sncs from bank repaid with Interest
"It Is wonderful" Gays Charles
Reade. chow genius can borrow .All
literature" remarks Oliver Wendell
Holmes, lives by borrowing and lend
ing" and, he adds. IA good image il
like diamond. which may be set q
hundred times ID as many generations
and gain new beauties with every
change This Is not a question Of
originality. 'The lighting candle
At neighb0r's fire." observes Dean
swift does not affect our property iD
the wick ana flame" Genius Dor
rows nobly.D The transference is
often 4 transmutatlon. For brass. tho
borrower brings gold, and for iron.
silver and for wood. brass, and for
stones. iron. The crude ore Is refined
and the raw material fashlone1 into
q thing Of beauty
1t has been pointed out by Mr.. Huth
IN bis aIife Of Buckle" that there Is
kind OF pedigree In literature. Dante
avows hls Indebtedness to Virgil az
the latter himself was under obliga-
tons to Homer.
Ariosto owes much to Virgil, and
spenser borrows frequently from
Ariosto. Sponsors "Faerie Queene"
gave birth to Fletcher's purple Is-
land . and this To Bernard's isle Of
Man" aud this IN turn to Defoe's
aRoblnson Crusoe" and Bunyan's
..pilgrim's Progress -all Ike SO many
blossoms rising from the one stem.
Shakespeare has been called the
great Warwickshire thief" 50 inveter-
ate Is his borrowing habit. He invaded
literature ike a Napoleon and brought
back the rarest art treasures to enrich
and beautify his verse. One is sur
prIsed to learn that our dramatist has
no original plots. that be has given to
poetry no new rhythm or stanza and
that ''he ran not only in the old road.
/ but In the old ruts." His "As You
Like IT. is taken from an old romance.
The characters OF his Julius Caesar"
are old Romans taken from Plutarch.
But what borrowingl Dry bones are
kurned into living men. The common
est materials are taken into the lam
bent fame OF his genius and transmit
ed into airy beauty.
Milton. too, is a free borrower It Is
this fact, indeed. that makes his verse
50 rich ln learned reminiscence and "a
gorgeous with "barbaric pearl and
gold" He owes much to Shakespeare
Some critics think Millions Eve Is Dor
rowed from Shalnespeare's Miranda. II
the Tanning Of the Shrew" occurs th'
line:
AS morning roses newly washed IN dew
While Milton in "EAllegro" speak
Of
Fresh blown roses washed IN dew.
Milton IS a very mine to many. Pop
Is his debtor. AlIlton's smoky Sol
ceress"-a woman to the waist am
fair but ending foul in many a seal
fold voguminous and vast'-is made
say, ''They call me sin and for sig
portentous hold me; but familia
grown. / pleased and with attraehs
graces won the most averse." POI
S sings:
Vice fs monster OF 30 frightful mien
Az 10 Be hated needs but 70 BE seen.
But seen too oft, familiar with her face
; We nrst endure. then pity, then einbrac
s Tennyson must have had in mir
hilton's
Hanging IN 8 golden chain
II This pendsrt world
when he wrote
Ths whole round world ia eTsry way
Bound by gold chains about the feet
God
,r Tennyson. Indeed, derives much Of .
exquisite Imagery and feIlcitous phra
=" ing from authors whose names, eve
10 many literary men do not know.
Pope borrows his "vitai Spark" i'd
ie from an old poem by Thomas Flatma
Byron gets his Eagle Feather" !
age in bis English Bards and Scot
Reviewers' from Aeschylus, who fiol
p lshed IN the ffth century before 0
era.
coleridge owes his "ode to Mo
Blanc to q German poem by Friedrl
Brown.
Bishop Ken Is indebted Tor
thought Ia THE Evening Hymn
IS Sir Thomas Browne in his "Collog
With Cod
Il bis own characteristic mani
Rudyard Kipllng has met the an
ton Of unconscious ihievery with
BIZ Of verse which commences:
When sOmer smoEs Is bloomlH' Tyre
I'D card men sing By land and sea,
And wot e thought e might require
e went an took the same as ne.
Let shakespears's lines close I
~ paper:
IN exampls you with thlevery:
Tha suns g thisk and With his great
traction
Rsbs tie vast seal the moons an arr
thief
And her pale nrs she zratehss from
ne seas q thief whose liquid surge
Ths moon INTO salt tears; the earth
nat feeds and brssds hy 3 compost
J. Fron esnsral szernsns; sash ming