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I don't know how to feel about this.
I googled "poetic identity" to make sure I wasn't just making shit up for my essay (more than usual). And the third hit returned an essay published in a literary journal in January 2005 that is more or less the essay I'm trying to write, and we have both selected 2 out of 3 of the same poems by which to substantiate our essays.
Good news: Someone else thought this was a good take on Wordsworth and was published for it.
Bad news: I have to cover my ass big time against plagiarism.
I'm wondering if I should alert my professor now to this accidental coincedence.
I googled "poetic identity" to make sure I wasn't just making shit up for my essay (more than usual). And the third hit returned an essay published in a literary journal in January 2005 that is more or less the essay I'm trying to write, and we have both selected 2 out of 3 of the same poems by which to substantiate our essays.
Good news: Someone else thought this was a good take on Wordsworth and was published for it.
Bad news: I have to cover my ass big time against plagiarism.
I'm wondering if I should alert my professor now to this accidental coincedence.
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I've nearly been burned once for "simultaneous inspiration", luckily other teachers knew me well enough to know I hate reading other people's ideas on a topic I'm trying to write until the very very end, if I have time.
I still think I should point it out that this is sheer coincidence.
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