Intertextuality and literary adaptation exemplified by T.S. Eliots "The Waste Land"

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 3, University of Coimbra, language: English, abstract: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal“, T.S. Eliot once said himself. What he probably wanted to express with that statement was the fact that every poet takes ideas from his role models and transforms them into something new – even though one would not n...