blissblogger
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so blake is doing this very consciously and crucially it's how he's reading dante and milton (and chaucer and so on and so forth) and yeats is also writing like this very consciously and deliberately and he is also reading poets of the past in this way.
have you read Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence? is it about this kind of Oedipally freighted relationship of revision of earlier poets by current poets, who then become ancestor poets to the next wave of poets
gist of it is that no great poetry is written without the anxiety of influence (i.e. feeling that all been said before, nothing original is left to be said) and that a great poem is "an achieved anxiety" - there a various ruses of revision, displacement, incorporation etc etc that poets use to defeat their ancestors
that's a bit off topic admittedly
but you can map it onto music (or indeed onto music journalism)