AZ, I think what Susan means is that in the poetry of other cultures and times, there is no element of deceit when one borrows; whereas in American/British letters there is an expectation that what one writes is original or, if lifted from some other source, either obviously done so or done so in a way that recontextualizes or reimagines the original. This is not a judgment on the practice of plagiarism but on deceit; I don't think you will tell me that deceit is acceptable in some cultures but perhaps you will.
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