Nor were works of original genius produced, but rather copies or varieties from the three great schools to which allusion has been made.
It is not my object to show that it was equal, or superior, or inferior to modern literature, either in original genius or artistic excellence.
So great is original genius, directed by art and consecrated to lofty sentiments.
He was also an original genius, remarkable in everything he attempted, whether as sculptor, painter, or architect, and even as poet.
But he was not an original genius, or a bold and independent thinker like Luther, so he was not emancipated from the ideas of his age.
Yet that means that he was not an original genius, but merely one who gave an adroit reproduction of a formula already in existence.
Davenant, indeed, and Denham may be reckoned the models of Dryden, so far as this can be said of a man of original genius, and one far superior to theirs.
Chaulieu was an original genius, his poetry has a marked character, being a happy mixture of a gentle and peaceable philosophy with a lively imagination.
Although few of them were authors, and all of them possessed acquired learning rather than original genius, they exercised a powerful influence over the public mind as professors, lecturers, critics, and schoolmasters.
But his philosophy is a mere reflection from that of Greece, while his poetry is bright with the rays of original genius.
From this preface, prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius, however mistaken its direction might be deemed, arose the whole long- continued controversy.
He did for England what Alexander Hamilton did for the United States in matters of finance, although as inferior to Hamilton in original genius as he was superior to him in general knowledge and purity of moral character.
He was not a man of great ideas or original genius, but was a ready debater, understood the temper of the English people, and led them by adopting their cause, whatever it was.
This sheer indiscipline of the literary imagination might seem in contrast with the discipline of the scientific imagination an inferiority; but such was not the view of the partisans of original genius.
This throwing off of the yoke of both Christian and classical discipline in the name of temperament is the essential aspect of the movement in favor of original genius.
There is an unbroken development from the early exponents of original geniusdown to cubists, futurists and post-impressionists and the corresponding schools in literature.
At the same time Kant had the cool temper of a man of the Enlightenment, and looked with the utmost disapproval on the aberrations that had marked in Germany the age of original genius (die Geniezeit).
But the true exception to the great economic law is seen in the Man of Original Genius, who cares not at all for the fashion except perhaps to destroy it.
In the case of a man of original genius, the first evidence of approaching fame is seen in the dust raised by contempt, scorn, ridicule, and various forms of angry resistance from those who will ultimately be converts.
Yet it was in this despised and rejected poem that a great, original genius in English poetry was first revealed.
Modest and wholly unpretentious he sets up as no original genius, and is content with his double rôle of close observer and respectful critic.
No one anticipated the amazingly brilliant career which followed at Cambridge, and even then few suspected him of original genius until he became Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in 1907.
But let me warn the reader against expectations of an original genius.
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