Thursday, March 10, 2011

cryptomnesia

Just read Jonathan Lethem's very interesting article "The Ecstasy of Influence" in Harper's Magazine (http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387). It touched on how T.S. Eliot, Bob Dylan, Vladimir Nabokov and others may have succumbed to cryptomnesia. Makes me wonder how many other poets have consciously or unconsciously 'lifted' a concept or turn of phrase.
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  1. AnonymousApril 15, 2011 at 2:00 PM

    I was thinking lately about artists and their influences, and I, completely randomly, began to think about cryptomnesia. I mean, just think of the greats, like Nabokov and Eliot, actually having lifted certain concepts or turns of phrase. Really makes you wonder...

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