Allusion to the Poets

Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry''s power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays - four published here for the first time - on allusion and its relations, in particular on the use that poets in English have made of the very wo...