Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes

Implication, Readers'' Resources, and Thomas Gray''s Pindaric Odes presents an account of “the Poets’ Secret,” the quite belated, historically recent, discovery by scholars and critics of something many poets have recognized and employed for ages: the sense expressed by allusively parallel parts within a text—thus expressed intratextually rather than only intertextually.

Inferential perception of t...