{"id":1779,"date":"2013-01-15T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:12:00","slug":"tagore-and-literary-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2013\/01\/15\/tagore-and-literary-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagore and Literary Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"rabindranath<\/a>

Rabindranath Tagore<\/p><\/div>\n

Tagore and Literary Adaptation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Accidentally including three or four poems by another poet among his collection of short poems, Fireflies (Lekhan)<\/em><\/em>, what Tagore did<\/a>\u00a0was discussed in 2002, in a different context, by Richard Posner, in “On Plagiarism” in The Atlantic Monthly<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

“…the writer who plagiarizes out of … forgetfulness, the latter being the standard defense when one is confronted with proof of one’s plagiarism.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was a mistake. Tagore immediately owned it. He was human, too, and graciously admitted he had erred, when it was pointed out to him, dealing with many manuscripts from years ago, jumbled together. Why should it be held against him by later sticklers?<\/p>\n

Now available in<\/p>\n

The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays<\/em>
\nForthcoming, September, 2014.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would argue, the more expansive the scope, the more necessary to his craft\u2014that the poet will find himself compelled to lean on the tradition to reach his audience, educate it, realizing readers cannot be assumed to follow the sweep and depth of his own study, unless he pays tribute to the original sources within his work, adapting and raising the material to the service of his vision. What is germane, is, as Posner suggests, does it work? Does the poet lift the sources to something new? Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,3],"tags":[804,29,186,655,657,659,658,384,487,551,172],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic","category-beyondpostmod","tag-epic","tag-epic-poetry","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-literary-adaptation","tag-matthew-arnold","tag-peter-higgs","tag-plagiarism","tag-shakespeare","tag-t-s-eliot","tag-tagore","tag-the-parliament-of-poets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}