My concern is only with strong poets, major figures with the persistence to wrestle with their strong precursors , even to the death.
Weaker talents idealize; figures of capable imagination appropriate for themselves.
But nothing is got for nothing, and self-appropriation involves the immense anxieties of indebtedness, for what strong maker desires the realization that he has failed to create himself?
Oscar Wilde, who knew he had failed as a poet because he (realized (?)...) that he has failed to create himself?
