Title: The infirmities of genius /
Authors: Bett, W. R. 1903-; Viets, Henry R. 1890-1969; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
Publisher: Christopher Johnson,
Year: 1952
Subjects: Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; Authors; Genius; Mind and body
Contents: Thomas Carlyle, a victim of dyspeptic neurasthenia. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, neurosis and genius. -- Christopher Smart, insanity as a shadow of genius. -- Walt Whitman, the invert who sought to redeem democracy. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne, epilepsy and genius. -- Edgar Allan Poe, the Oedipus complex and genius. -- Charles Lamb, the genius who resented the impertinence of manhood. -- Thomas de Quincey, opium and genius. -- Charles Baudelaire, syphilis, drugs, and genius. -- Honoré de Balzac, high blood pressure and genius. -- John Keats, tuberculosis and genius. -- Robert Burns, rheumatic fever and genius. -- Lord Byron, lameness and genius. -- Alexander Pope, physical infirmity and genius. -- Lafcadio Hearn, the disfigured genius who worshipped beauty. -- References and further reading.