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... genius will always be in advance of a talent , and in so far as we are concerned with the genius of Tchehov we must accept the inevitable . We must analyse and seek to understand it ; we must , above all , make up our minds that since ...
... genius will always be in advance of a talent , and in so far as we are concerned with the genius of Tchehov we must accept the inevitable . We must analyse and seek to understand it ; we must , above all , make up our minds that since ...
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... genius in abstraction from the torment of experience . Milton held for Keats the promise of a release from the pain of life , of a world of abstractions into which he could enter and be free , where his poetic genius would be nobly ...
... genius in abstraction from the torment of experience . Milton held for Keats the promise of a release from the pain of life , of a world of abstractions into which he could enter and be free , where his poetic genius would be nobly ...
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... genius , if there had to be a choice between them . So I do believe [ he wrote to his brothers on January 13th , 1818 ] -not thus speaking with any poor vanity - that works of genius are the first things in this world . No ! for that ...
... genius , if there had to be a choice between them . So I do believe [ he wrote to his brothers on January 13th , 1818 ] -not thus speaking with any poor vanity - that works of genius are the first things in this world . No ! for that ...
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