Creativity, Characters and Influences of the Literary Genius

Contents: Preface. 1. Literary character and the lovers of literature and art. 2. Adversaries and men who treat the literature with levity. 3. Art and artists in the history of men of literary genius. 4. Natural genius and his predisposition. 5. Facts of decisive character of genius: impulses, curiosity etc. 6. Stubborn peculiarities, errors and improvement in self-taught Genius. 7. Irritability, suffering, anxiety of the creative genius. 8. The disagreement between the society and the literary character. 9. Conservationists and writers, not always the same genius. 10. Its necessity and pleasures of the literary solitude. 11. Meditations of genius and ability to create feelings from creations. 12. The enthusiasm of genius and enthusiasts in literature and art. 13. Jealousy in genius--a fever that consumes the sufferer. 14. What induces men of genius to undervalue each other. 15. Self-praise--an instinctive element in the nature of genius. 16. Genius on domestic front--unequality, neglect, accusations. 17. The poverty of literary men. 18. Genius in domestic life: a picture of a literary wife. 19. Unity of feelings in literary friendships--the glory and sorrow. 20. Paradoxes of literary and the personal characters in genius. 21. The men of letters and their utility to authors and artists. 22. Occupations in advanced age of the literary character. 23. Universality of genius. 24. Public created intellectual nobility and literary honours. 25. Influences of authors, society and government on each other. 26. Closing with literary miscellanies and miscellanists.

"The book Creativity, Characters and Influences of the Literary Genius may seem a loose collection of articles about the topics of literature and beyond, which it is not. The volume comprises writings on subjects that range and encompass not only English Literature, but all literature by and large.

Chapters of the book offer unity of design, and afford to the general reader and to the student of classical antiquity some initiation into wider panorama of Literature. It is presumed also, that they present materials for thinking not solely on literary topics, authors and books but a comprehensive view of human nature necessarily enters into the subject from the diversity of the characters portrayed, through the gradations of their faculties, the influence of their tastes, and those incidents of their lives prompted by their fortunes or their passions." (jacket)