Poetic thefts and intertextuality

The theory of poetic thefts had a significant presence in the ancient critical arena, and it resulted in a critical classification movement, but it was founded on and carried a legacy of sanctifying the old, so it could not detach from it, and look with a broad eye at the vastness of poetic thefts, and that they grant the poet positive interaction with previous texts, and he can build with them and upon them. And this is what the theory of intertextuality understood, which appeared in the West, and found its echo in Arab criticism, which tried to comprehend it, and some critics viewed it as the same as the theory of poetic thefts. The truth is that they agree in many aspects, but they differ in more and more precise aspects, and this is what the study attempts to answer through theory and application.