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Word: plagiarists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across an old painting showing the marvellous boy as a middle-aged man. Curious, he begins to pore over some obscure manuscripts. They suggest that Chatterton faked his early death, then continued to write more verse under more assumed names, among them William Blake and Thomas Gray. "The greatest plagiarist in history?" inquires a colleague. "No!" Wychwood argues. "He was the greatest poet in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet As a Young Corpse CHATTERTON | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...through, the show carries the powerful conviction that the substance of Romantic thought was as much the invention of painters as of poets. Constable was Wordsworth's equal and ally, not his plagiarist, when he wrote that the light in his paintings "cannot be put out because it is the light of Nature -- the mother of all that is valuable in poetry, painting or anything else where an appeal to the soul is required." Natural vision, the sense of English terrain, exalted hopes of freedom, fear of the apocalyptic violence that lurked in human nature and, above all, a sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sharing The Poet's Obsession | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Scenario 4: An English major has handed in a creative writing thesis entitled "Madonna Quixote." Half-way through the thesis, a sharp-eyed grad student realized that he was reading Cervantes "Don Quixote" with the genders reversed. What is the appropriate punishment for this plagiarist...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Lords of Discipline | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

Random House Editorial Director Jason Epstein put the request in for the plagiarist manuscript entitled. "Telling Right From Wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pretty Please, Mr. Nozick? | 12/15/1984 | See Source »

...land their coveted jobs remains unclear. But with EMPLOYERS, SALARIES and CHANCES FOR PROMOTION, the relentless pursuit of SUCCESS would seem likely to continue. It is in this renewed but more mam-month crusade that the notorious Princeton non-graduate insists she should be free of the label "plagiarist." Crafts and Hauther presumably composed this book on their own, but their achievement seems even more reprehensible than that of Napolitano...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Life in the Fast Lane | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

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