my personal favorite example of literary artistic “plagiarism” is when Laurence Sterne stole verbatim a passage from The Anatomy…
my personal favorite example of literary artistic “plagiarism” is when Laurence Sterne stole verbatim a passage from The Anatomy of Melancholy about how contemporary writers don’t even write anything new, they just go back to old books and take whole passages and no one knows (the anatomy was out of print at the time, so critics didn’t get this joke for something like at least 100+ years)