Talk:Genius (literature)

Subsections

I wondered what the editors of this page think about introducing subsections to this article that would more clearly differentiate "genius of place" from the Romantic concept of "genius". I am linking to this page from Mary: A Fiction and would like to add some more context that is relevant for that book and others like it. Awadewit | talk 15:57, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Awadewit. Guess who.

Anyway, you're right, of course, that the discussion ties up together. My own goal was to show the slow transition of "genius" as daemon to "genius" as demon to "genius" as gift and how really seamlessly "genius of the place" becomes "portable genius of the individual." They seem to exist at the same time. There was a book I read a long, long, long time ago that seemed profound at the time (i.e. it might be trivial or obvious to me now) called The Religion of Art (hmm, I only see a 1990 via Google, and I read this around 1980, and it wasn't in mint condition at the time, so I suppose this is about a 1974-6 book) that did some of the groundwork of tracing the "poet as vates" to the "poet as shaman," and I thought that would be a fantastic adjunct, as it picks up the twists of "genius" after this article leaves off.

Any subsectioning you want to do to improve the article, please do. Geogre 03:05, 4 August 2007 (UTC)