Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

We discern modern paradigms of academic fraud as a double-standard varying as plagiarism in undergraduate papers and graduate pre-publications are academically expelled, yet collegiality shields professorial utterance despite the degree of profundity in the fraud. We proffer Northrop Frye’s elide of Peacock’s essay or name from the index of Frye’s canonical “Anatomy of Criticism” despite touting T.L.Peacock’s cyclic recurrences referenced by “The Four Ages of Poetry” as exemplary. We cite Christopher Ricks’ “legitimate borrowing” purport in Paull, yet propound Frye’s scholarly omission of Peacock’s historic response to Sydney’s “Defence of Poesy” then Shelley’s corresponding “Defence of Poetry, as a neo-Platonic academic expulsion of Romantic radicalism. As in Sidney: “For conclusion I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.”