Epigrams, quotes, credits
Got thinking, after reading the comments on "Rip-Tide". If I quote a line from another poem in a poem I write, what are some appropriate ways to credit the source? I've been leaning towards epigrams,...
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Tough question. I read your sonnet after reading the epigraph, and the epigraph affected my reading. And I really liked the poem. I can't unbreak the egg and see how it reads without the epigraph. I'm...
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I myself would not normally, especially where any educated reader could be expected to know the source. I often leave echoes or allusions in my poems, thinking the reader who finds them might enjoy...
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I think if it's Shakespeare, Longfellow, Wordsworth--anybody we all HAD to read in school--you could assume the reader would understand the reference (though, of course, the reader won't always do so,...
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Tiel, The use of epigraph in Sonnet writing can of course be a useful way to sneak in that 15th line of vital reference. A form of cheating I fully endorse by the way. Taking up your main point and...
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