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This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and ""perfect"" them. Here, Piero Boitani adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts, scenes, and themes have been rewritten by modern authors. Boitani focuses on a concept of literary transition that takes into account both T.S. Eliot's idea of ""tradition and individual talent"" and Harold Bloom's ""anxiety of influence"". In five essays he examines a range of authors and texts, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Voltaire, Goethe, Sarte, Dante, and Keats.
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The Genius to Improve an Invention is both substantial and graceful - a fascinating journey through some of the greatest works of Western literature, with a guide who is at once learned and entertaining, impassioned and moving. - Jill Mann University of Notre Dame
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PIERO BOITANI is professor of comparative literature at the University of Rome, ""La Sapienza."" He is the founding president of the European Society for English Studies and a fellow of the British Academy. In 2002, he was awarded the Feltrinelli Prize for Literary Criticism - Italy's most prestigious literary award. Boitani is the author of numerous books, including The Shadow of Ulysses and The Bible and Its Rewritings.
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