Colin Burrow was a Fellow and Tutor and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before he took up a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2006. He has written extensively about classical and early modern British and European literature, and has edited the complete poetry of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and (forthcoming) John Marston. He is an editor of Review of English Studies, and (with Jonathan Bate) General Editor of the Oxford English Literary History for which he is writing the Elizabethan volume. He is a regular reviewer for The London Review of Books.

Any scholar interested in literary imitation would profit from reading Imitating Authors, while those interested in Renaissance literary culture will find it particularly valuable. I know of no better introduction to the long, intricate history of imitatio.

• Preface Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts Introduction Part 1: Antiquity 1: From Mimēsis to Imitatio: Before and After Plato Building Bodies: Imitatio and the Roman Rhetorical Tradition Dreamitation: Lucretius, Homer, Virgil Part 2: Early Modernity 4: Petrarchan Transformations 5: Adaptive Imitation: Ciceronians, Courtiers and Quixotes 6: Formal Imitation: The 'Leaden-Headed Germans' and Their English Heirs 7: Ben Jonson: Formal Imitation Part 3: Milton and After 8: Milton: Modelling the Ancients 9: Imitation in the Age of Literary Property: Pope to Wordsworth 10: The Promethean Moment: Mary Shelley and Milton's Monstrous Progeny Posthuman Postscript: Poems more Durable than Brass Bibliography

Colin Burrow was a Fellow and Tutor and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before he took up a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2006. He has written extensively about classical and early modern British and European literature, and has edited the complete poetry of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and (forthcoming) John Marston. He is an editor of Review of English Studies, and (with Jonathan Bate) General Editor of the Oxford English Literary History for which he is writing the Elizabethan volume. He is a regular reviewer for The London Review of Books.

Any scholar interested in literary imitation would profit from reading Imitating Authors, while those interested in Renaissance literary culture will find it particularly valuable. I know of no better introduction to the long, intricate history of imitatio.

• Preface Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts Introduction Part 1: Antiquity 1: From Mimēsis to Imitatio: Before and After Plato Building Bodies: Imitatio and the Roman Rhetorical Tradition Dreamitation: Lucretius, Homer, Virgil Part 2: Early Modernity 4: Petrarchan Transformations 5: Adaptive Imitation: Ciceronians, Courtiers and Quixotes 6: Formal Imitation: The 'Leaden-Headed Germans' and Their English Heirs 7: Ben Jonson: Formal Imitation Part 3: Milton and After 8: Milton: Modelling the Ancients 9: Imitation in the Age of Literary Property: Pope to Wordsworth 10: The Promethean Moment: Mary Shelley and Milton's Monstrous Progeny Posthuman Postscript: Poems more Durable than Brass Bibliography

Colin Burrow was a Fellow and Tutor and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before he took up a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2006. He has written extensively about classical and early modern British and European literature, and has edited the complete poetry of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and (forthcoming) John Marston. He is an editor of Review of English Studies, and (with Jonathan Bate) General Editor of the Oxford English Literary History for which he is writing the Elizabethan volume. He is a regular reviewer for The London Review of Books.

Any scholar interested in literary imitation would profit from reading Imitating Authors, while those interested in Renaissance literary culture will find it particularly valuable. I know of no better introduction to the long, intricate history of imitatio.

• Preface Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts Introduction Part 1: Antiquity 1: From Mimēsis to Imitatio: Before and After Plato Building Bodies: Imitatio and the Roman Rhetorical Tradition Dreamitation: Lucretius, Homer, Virgil Part 2: Early Modernity 4: Petrarchan Transformations 5: Adaptive Imitation: Ciceronians, Courtiers and Quixotes 6: Formal Imitation: The 'Leaden-Headed Germans' and Their English Heirs 7: Ben Jonson: Formal Imitation Part 3: Milton and After 8: Milton: Modelling the Ancients 9: Imitation in the Age of Literary Property: Pope to Wordsworth 10: The Promethean Moment: Mary Shelley and Milton's Monstrous Progeny Posthuman Postscript: Poems more Durable than Brass Bibliography