infirmities of genius.
Series: Medical viewpoint series
Publisher: Christopher Johnson
Published: 1952
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Authors -- Psychology; Genius; Mind and body
Notes: On dust jacket: Medical viewpoint series.

Includes index.
Table of contents: value: 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.