Chimes wrote:
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On Hecht—a poet neglected in recent years—Ricks meditates on his allusiveness. Hecht himself reflected widely in an interview, quoted in True Friendship, that he "borrowed" freely from earlier poets. "The borrowed voices, I should like to hope, lend a sort of ancestral authority to what I am trying to say, but they also represent a kind of homage on my part."
She acts like another member of the Dead Poet's Society; but I won't say who that is. Its simply a matter of perception or not.
Hecht might have 'admitted' to borrowing freely from other poets, but when did Dylan ever 'admit' to it? That's the difference.