Word: genius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cyrano de Bergerac and because it deals with one of the leading French colleges. The introduction of the book is probably the better part, as it gives a clear idea of Cyrano himself and of his works. He was an extremely clever writer, but by no means a genius. He has neither the touch not power of staging plays which most French writers possess, but he sets his works forth in a way that have an undeniable charm and grace. It was Cyrano's idea, in "Le Pedant Joue," to make his audiences laugh, and he has succeeded admirably...
...forthcoming number of the Monthly contains three scrupulously written criticisms: "Harrison G. O. Blake '35, and Thoreau," by D. G. Mason 1 G.; "Macaulay as a Literary Critic," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, and "Coventry Patmore's Conception of Genius" by J. La Farge, Jr., 1901, These criticisms are all interesting and full of care and precision in composition and in style. But in this respect they suffer from a fault which mars many a Monthly contribution. They are more careful than anything else. They are not surprising, original or absorbing in subject matter, nor yet interesting...
...eighth and last lecture in the course on "English Novelists" will be given at eight o'clock this evening, in Sever 11. The subject will be George Eliot. After brief comment on the author's life, Mr. Copeland will discuss her genius for literature, and the ways in which it was helped and hindered by her ethical enthusiasms and the scientific tendencies of the time...
There are two things to remember in considering the development of her genius. In the first place she had to suffer the contempt with which her grandmother treated her mother, who was a common work-woman. Here we see in George Sand the first seed of revolt against social institutions. Secondly, she was unhappy in her marriage and it was to plead her cause that she first became a writer...
...thinks that to be a poet is to "hark in his heart to the echo of his genius"; that is to say the poet ought to express only what is in his own heart...