The Literary Character; Or the History of Men of Genius, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from The Literary Character; Or the History of Men of Genius, Vol. 2: Drawn From Their Own Feelings and Confession Universality of genius. - Limited notion of genius entertained by the ancients. - Opposite faculties act with diminished force. - Men of genius excel only in a single art; Literature an avenue to glory. - An intellectual nobility not chimerical, but created by public opinion. - Literary honours of various nations. - Local associations with the memory of the man of genius; Influence of authors on society and of society on authors. - National tastes a source of literary prejudices. - True genius always the organ of its nation. - Master-writers preserve the distinct national character. - Genius the organ of the state of the age. - Causes of its suppression in a people. - Often invented, but neglected. - The natural gradations of genius. - Men of genius produce their usefulness in privacy. - The public mind is now the creation of the public writer. - Politicians affect to deny this principle. - Authors stand between the governors and the governed. - A view of the solitary author in his study. - They create an epoch in history. - Influence of popular authors. - The immortality of thought. - The family of genius illustrated by their genealogy About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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