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Did Borges invent the idea of writing reviews/summaries of imaginary literary works?
No he did not!
The process can be traced back at least to Thomas Carlyle, who in Sartor Resartus (1833–34) publishes a summary and a critique, à la Borges, of the fictional book Clothes, Their Origin ...
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Did Borges invent the idea of writing reviews/summaries of imaginary literary works?
Sartor Resartus was written in 1836. There are examples of earlier imaginaries dating back to John Donne and Rabelais. Donne's The Courtier's Library (1650), is a catalogue of 34 apocryphal works ...
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Looking for a poem about the (fictionalized) writing of The Canterbury Tales Prologue
Like others, I have not been able to find the poem you are looking for, but I wonder if the source is actually the last few stanzas of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. The stanza that begins with “Go, ...
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