Darrin McMahon, “Deconstructing Genius” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Romantic Poet
In the nineteenth century, this link between a genius in transgressionan a normality wright emerges. The romantics are very good at going back and looking at in western history and finding geniuses. In shakespeare fits the part perfectly right. He seems to just produce all this out of his head without any formal training or so forth. And yet he's a new type. That's one of the reasons why people often associate genius with the renaissance. Aeli write about this a bit, but therr still not in the modern sense, none the less.
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